We had John Engler get rid of the elected school board. At the time he wanted to give control Mayor Dennis Archer, but, Kwame Kilpatrick worked out a deal with Engler so that Dennis Archer wouldn't have control. Then, when he was mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick wanted to take control of the schools, but the voters rejected that idea. Meanwhile, the voters in the City of Detroit kept on voting in idiots and obstructionists who in turn kept hiring idiots to run the school system to the point that Granholm had to appoint a Financial Manager to run things. And now, we're at the point were it looks as though the mayors office will finally be given some control over the school system. Throughout all of this, which has gone on for the past 10-12 years, everyone has been arguing about governance, but, no one has been talking about actually educating the kids. We're going around in circles, backwards.