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Schuette sues to oust 7 members of Detroit school board

• By Shawn D. Lewis and Maureen Feighan
• The Detroit News
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Detroit— Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette asked a Wayne County court Thursday to remove seven of the 11 members of the Detroit Board of Education, as a power struggle over the state's largest school district heated up.

Schuette said in a release issued by his office that the seven members were holding office illegally because Detroit Public Schools lost its status as a Class 1 district in September 2008.

Schuette said that meant all 11 school board members should have been elected at-large in the most recent election in November 2011, instead of four at-large and seven from districts.

"For far too long, the children of Detroit have received a second-class education," Schuette said in the release. "It's time to improve their quality of education, and that starts at the top."

As Schuette was announcing the lawsuit, the DPS board was asserting i

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