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...pictures of Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm...
This isn't the kind of problem most school chiefs in the U.S. have to worry about. A year ago, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm gave Bobb, the former president of Washington, D.C.'s Board of Education, the task of ending the financial crisis that has devastated the Detroit public-school system. In the past decade, the number of Detroit public-school students has plummeted from more than 167,000 to 84,600, mainly because of the emergence of charter schools and the middle class's exodus to the suburbs. It could fall further, to 65,000 in the next four...
...populated by a mix of financial experts and smarter-than-average former elected officials. In keeping with the P-heavy historical precedents, it could be known as the Phil Commission, after chairman Phil Angelides--a former California state treasurer who lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the state's 2006 governor's race. On the commission's first day of hearings, Angelides set a tone of civil but pointed inquisition that bodes well for its future. "It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on the buyer," he said at one point...
According to a recent Boston Globe article, the cadets at the Randolph Regional Police Training Academy had invited Crowley to speak at their upcoming graduation ceremony in April. But according to Crowley's brother Daniel, the idea was vetoed by state officials at the request of Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick '78 because Crowley would be too controversial...
...some are contradicting Daniel Crowley's story. Juan Martinez, the governor's spokesperson, said Deval had not been involved in the decision to reject Crowley, and Daniel Zivkovich, executive director of the Municipal Police Training Committee, stated that the academy had not extended an invitation to Crowley, though he had been mentioned as a possible speaker. Crowley declined to comment on the issue...