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Michigan counts Detroit Public Schools as the only school district classified as a "first class school district". Circa 2002, due to the state government giving control of the district to the municipal government, the U.S. Census Bureau counted the Detroit district as a dependent school system, though the Census Bureau stated that it was an ...
The MPA was founded as the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) in 1922 as a trade association of member motion picture companies. At its founding, MPPDA member companies produced approximately 70 to 80 percent of the films made in the United States. [4]
Glickman was born into a Jewish family and is the son of Rhoda Yura and Dan Glickman, the former Kansas Congressman, Secretary of Agriculture, and president of the MPAA. [1] [2] [3] He was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Wichita, Kansas and Washington, D.C.
Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries [6] Michigan Department of Information Technology [ 7 ] Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation , abolished by Governor Engler with most of the department transfer to the Department of Commerce until Commerce was split up with the former L&R powers transferred to the Department of ...
Michigan maintained its standing nationally in high school sports participation statistics for the 2018–19 school year, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. The total for the 2018–19 year was 281,992, with 120,378 girls and 161,614 boys taking part.
Eric Allen Johnston (December 21, 1896 – August 22, 1963) was a business owner, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a Republican Party activist, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and a U.S. government special projects administrator and envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Control of the company was handed down to William's son, Bob Goodrich, who still heads Goodrich Quality Theaters. Bob Goodrich extensively expanded the company, founding new multiplexes and drive-ins around Michigan. Some of the "original" multiplex theaters are still in operation today.
Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film written, produced, directed by, and starring Michael Moore, in his directorial debut.Moore portrays the regional economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith's action of closing several auto plants in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, reducing GM's employees in that area from 80,000 in 1978 to about 50,000 in 1992.