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Education Board Investigating Bobb Complaints - Education News Story - WDIV Detroit

Education Board Investigating Bobb Complaints - Education News Story - WDIV Detroit

Education Board Investigating Bobb Complaints

POSTED: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
UPDATED: 5:36 pm EST January 12, 2011

The Michigan Department of Education says it is investigating complaints from parents that Detroit Public Schools emergency financial manager Robert Bobb is mishandling the needs of some special education students.

"Initially, we have 1,160 complaints," said Chris White, a parent of an autistic son and member of the Coalition to Restore Hope to DPS.

He said he and 50 others recently dropped off bus attendant requests directly to the Education Board in Lansing after Bobb announced that 88 attendants had been terminated district-wide because of budget needs.

White said not having attendants on buses with special needs children violates the Individualized