Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has some 'splaining to do. It sure looks like he sneaked a proposed pay raise on the agenda for someone whom trustees had already set a pay scale. I'm not buying the super's explanation that he was...
Education reporter Holly Hacker makes an interesting observation -- the juxtaposition of two headlines on our 1A this morning: "DISD to borrow $100M" "Clements giving a record $100M to UT Southwestern" I'll ask before DISD Supt. Mike Hinojosa does. Got...
And the lesson is: You can't pull the wool over folks' eyes forever. Last night, DISD trustees finally got smart and did the right thing by putting the brakes on a decision to gut the system's magnet schools and learning...
Here's an encouraging, hopeful story about one Dallas high school that seems to be making inroads in terms of turning around academic achievement and pointing more students in the right direction. I especially took note of two of the keys...
The old grading models may be changing, but some things are timeless - like the seemingly bottomless appetite among professional educational theorists for trendy new teaching methods. Who remembers "whole language" and that wacky Let's Forget About Spelling! movement? Now...
Former Lincoln High School football coach Jerry Sands, in a sworn affadavit, offered his explanation for why an errant student was administered 21 "licks" with a sawed-off canoe paddle: He was trying to "save" the kid! Aided by other coaches...
As Dave Levinthal reports, the mayor's still skirting a detailed discussion about his exploration of taking over the beleaguered Dallas Independent School District. He's totally ignoring my plea. And, quite frankly, I didn't think he'd be able to not talk...
A newly released study of 37 of the nation's largest urban school systems found that city schools are improving more than other school districts in their respective states. The study, done by The Brown Center on Education Policy at the...
That's the only message I'd offer to Mayor Tom Leppert, who didn't join in on the live chat some DMN reporters hosted this morning to discuss the mayor's trial-balloon, um, idea, of taking over the Dallas school district....
That's the question my colleague, Kent Fischer, is asking over on the Dallas ISD Blog. I'll tell you what I think in my next column, one that may be up online before you start your commute home, or one that...
I'm wondering how the average Dallasite is feeling this morning, with Wall Street on the brink of financial ruin, the Dallas Independent School District in a financial rut, the City of Dallas -- and its mayor -- sparring with some...
Here's one more development sure to keep Superintendent Michael Hinojosa up in the middle of the night turning sofas upside down as he looks for, oh, about $64 million in loose change....
OK, I guess I must be a DISD bigot. Because personally, I'm thrilled and amazed that this long-awaited financial audit found only incompetence, not malfeasance. And do we get a refund on all those previous audits that didn't send up...
In the wake of my recent columns about high schools needing more career training, I love this story today about a Dallas high school working to prepare future police officers and firefighters. What a great idea. Let's hope the proposal...
Dallas ISD reporter Kent Fischer has been trolling the blogosphere and found this nugget: Former DISD spokesman Donny Claxton has, for many months, been blogging about his new Brady Bunch-like family (A recent marriage means Donny is now father to...
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