Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Frankie Wong enters prison. (Far right-hand column.) ** BackTalk comments on our comments re: yesterday's Woodrow IB discussion. ** The TX Association of School Boards researched how state laws and policies support...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Remedial programs in districts comprising Region 10 are lagging. Nobody asked why. ** Some DISD kids can watch an opera live. At a movie theater. On a Saturday. I bet they're excited....
Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** A link I missed the other day to an excellent column by a DISD teacher on forgiveness. He's a bigger man than me, that's for sure. ** Two Dallas kids get mentioned...
Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** Over on a KERA blog, we're pointed to another blog where Hinojosa says the recent budget mess won't impact the district's effort to beef up its arts programs. ** Trustee Lew Blackburn...
That's because our neighbors to the south today won the $1 million Broad Prize -- the big to-do that Hinojosa has staked his superintendency on winning by 2010....
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** The Broad Prize ups the payout to $2 million smackeroos. ** New software helps parents track their kid's cafeteria spending. ** Knock, knock. Who's there? The Mayor. Got a link...
I know some of you skeptics out there think DISD is trying to buy its way to the Broad Prize, by hiring Broad graduates, taking Broad training money, adopting their reform beliefs, etc. Well, here's another piece to the puzzle...
The Broad Foundation today announced its 2008 finalists for the esteemed Broad (rhymes with "road") Prize for Urban Education. The award not only comes with moolah for scholarships but gives an urban district bragging rights on having made great...
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