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Bobb Cotter wrote "The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography, " and he joins us now.
Mr Bobb thinks that is overdoing it, and that it may simply drive more pupils away.
Now, Bobb is proposing to create charter schools for 16, 000 students from 41 schools slated for closure.
"I fully intend to use the authority that was granted under Public Act 4, " Bobb said in the statement.
Bobb also plans to close the Detroit Day School for the Deaf.
Mr. BOBB COTTER (Author, "The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography"): Hi, Debbie.
Robert Bobb, the school district's emergency financial manager, has tried several policies to try to balance the books, including closing 59 schools.
My problem is not with Robert Bobb as a person, or with the act of placing a school system or city into state receivership.
Detroit Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb announced last month that he was closing eight schools, and selling up to 45 more to charter companies.
Merrick Bobb of the Police Assessment Resource Centre, which aims to strengthen police accountability, points out that the numbers of officers prosecuted and convicted is still very small.
In Detroit, a city that has faced decline now for several decades, Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb has issued a layoff notice to all 5, 466 public school teachers.
Merrick Bobb, the independent counsel of Los Angeles County, estimates that its jail population rose from 14, 500 in 2011 to 17, 000 this February and could grow to 21, 000 by 2015 due to realignment.
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