DPS EM Earley to announce today he’ll step down
The increasingly controversial emergency manager of Detroit Public Schools is expected today to make the announcement he is stepping down from his post.
Darnell Earley will be leaving the district Feb. 29, according to sources in Lansing.
He has served as the manager of Detroit schools since January 2015. His term, under the law, is up in June, but his position at the district has become a major impediment to Gov. Rick Snyder’s plans to financial stabilize the troubled school district. That legislation has been introduced and is awaiting a hearing on Thursday.
Earley has come under intense criticism in recent weeks for his tenure as emergency manager of Flint when the city moved from the Detroit water system to the Flint River.
In addition, teacher sickouts this year have raised awareness of potentially unsafe and and unsanitary conditions at many buildings within the district, which is on the brink of insolvency.
Until now, both Snyder and Earley had maintained he would stay in office through the end of the term. But there has been growing pushback about how the Flint water crisis was handled.DPS EM Earley to announce today he’ll step down:
