Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** A blogger asks: "Where the whites at?" We did something similar a while back, that shows exactly when the whites fled. ** Our story this morn on the mysterious $15 million deficit-reduction...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** This is going to be an important week for the superintendent, who told a Saturday gathering that he has no intention of resigning. ** Two DISD editorials: One likes the...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Part of 'Pacman' Jones' strategy to get himself reinstated in the NFL is to give school uniforms to DISD kids. What a nice guy. Question: Will they made of kevlar?...
The "Hamon Arts Magnet" sign on the side of the new wing at Booker T. -- the one that caused all the ruckus last month -- is no longer. It was taken down Thursday. (See pic below.) New signs will...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** The Booker T. name dust-up remains dusty and up this morning as the board failed to resolve the conflict yesterday. ** Where'd all the supposed juicers go? ** A former...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Add another school accountability loophole to an already long list of loopholes. TEA grants this one after districts request time to "adapt" to new dropout standards. DISD was one of...
In tomorrow's Dallas Morning News, we'll have more information on James Dante Kings, the Booker T. Washington student who was found dead early Friday on I-35 in Austin while on a school trip. His father, James H. Kings, is trying...
A few weeks ago, district trustees got a progress report on Dallas Achieves. The presentation raised the notion that some of DISD's high schools are being held back because magnet schools siphon off their best students. We decided to check...
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