with teachers and fire elected officials. He said he intended to use these powers, and issued layoff notices to all of the teachers in the school system, which gave the power to call back or reassign teachers without having to consider seniority rights. Bobb also proposed that as many as forty one DPS schools that he scheduled for closure be turned instead into privatized charter schools. Awards and civic activities Bobb has received the L.P. Cookingham Award for Career Development and four Innovation Awards from the International City Management Association. He was also given the Marks of Excellence Award by the National Forum of Black Public Administrators, and was named public official of the year by Governing magazine. In 2010, Walsh College, a private business school headquartered in Troy, Michigan, invited Bobb to give a commencement speech and conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon him following the speech. Bobb is a past president of National Forum for Black Public Administrators and the City of Oakland Black Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, and holds a lifetime membership in the NAACP. Bobb is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States). Electoral history References External links Mac Donald, Heather. "Jerry Brown's No-Nonsense New Age for Oakland." City Journal. Autumn (Northern Hemisphere) 1999. African-American people in Washington, D.C., politics American city managers Politicians from Washington, D.C. Grambling State University alumni Living people Members of the District of Columbia Board of Education Western Michigan University alumni Politicians from New Orleans 1945 births Detroit Public Schools Community District 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people