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Entries tagged with 'Budget cuts'Is Booker T. being gutted?Judging by this new report on proposed staffing formulas, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts would lose 23 magnet teachers -- going from 26 to 3. Parents at Booker T. are in an uproar. I've... Feds deny DISD's Title I switcheroo requestUPDATED with district comment after the jump: The U.S. Department of Education has turned down the district's request to move about $15 million in salaries to the federal Title I grant program. These salaries are primarily associated with the district's... Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's tray of hot district morsels ... ** A homeschooler wonders if some like them will get swept up the DISD's truancy crackdown. ** Districts see kids and dollar signs. ** We're short on math and science teachers. Still. **... More on DISD's slice of the stimulus packageWe mentioned it in this morn's Daily Dish, but we're putting up a new post to flesh out a few details of what the district stands to gain from the proposed $825 billion "stimulus package." The bill would pump $201... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** The teachers whose principals screwed up will get their bonus pay after all. ** Our report on the official word on the whys and hows of the budget implosion. **... Exhibit A on why trustees should read this blog ...UPDATED AFTER THE JUMP... because it'll help keep them from making assertions that aren't true. You see, over at the Observer's blog, they're running a 725-part series of interview excerpts with district trustees on the topic of "What do you... Good news, bad news: A 2008-09 budget updateI have just returned from a two-hour budget briefing where district administrators presented their efforts thus far to revise the current year budget into a document that resembles DISD's financial reality. It seemed to me that the upshot of the... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** 2009-10 is shaping up to be a very lean year for local school budgets. ** It's gift time for teachers. ** Mr. Teacher directs our attention to a reader's choice... Budget deficit leftoversI have a notebook full of loose ends relating to Sunday's postmortem on the budget deficit. First, the reporting for the story leaned heavily on the management letter that the district got last June from it's independent auditors, which you... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** A local "museum educator" who interacts with DISD says some of the best kids hail from the district. But the budget problems are really sticking it to them. ** BackTalker... Two budget debacles. Two supes in hot water. Two entirely different causes.One month after DISD went public with its budget deficit, Lancaster ISD announced financial problems of its own: a $2 million shortfall. There are many parallels between the two districts' budget woes: layoffs (both threatened and executed), program cuts, a... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Coverage of last night's ethics vote. Dallas.org blogs the meeting. Carla Ranger's writes about it on her blog this morning. ** Apparently last night three trustees called for a special... Transferred DISD teachers: How's it going?We're bumping this post from Monday to today because we want to hear more from the hundreds of teachers who were transferred to other campuses. Comments left on other threads indicate there are some problems -- government teachers getting reassigned... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** James Ragland tees off on the proposed ethics policy. ** The full story from yesterday's job fair. CBS 11 has a report, too. ** DISD's budget woes turns up in... TEA to get DISD finance update FridayFrontBurner had it first, but we'll flesh it out for you. State schools czar Robert Scott is coming up to meet with district brass on Friday for what is being described as an "update" on DISD's efforts to erase its... Some DISD trustees' businesses (or homes) will be picketed, says community activistsSome community activists want Superintendent Michael Hinojosa fired, like yesterday, and they plan to hold "roving" pickets at the homes and/or businesses of DISD board members who support him. "DISD trustees who voted for the RIF and who continue to... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** This video ought to played on a loop during the next school board meeting. ** Our coverage today: The main story; a first-person account; a job fair. A photo slide... One Pinkston teacher got 'blindsided'Colleague Tawnell Hobbs is out on the street this afternoon. She just caught up with a Pinkston teacher who got RIF'd: Architectural drafting teacher Tom Warner, 45, had a dreadful feeling when he was called out of his first-period class... Eric Anderson got $15k and a promise of silenceYou can see the public documents regarding Anderson's resignation from the district here. Anderson, of course, is the former Chief Operating Officer and so far he is the biggest head to roll in the budget fiasco. Anderson has, thus far,... Hold on: DISD delays the RIF one dayWe're just now getting word that DISD has decided to delay, by one day, layoffs after principals raised questions about the process. Statement from Michael Hinojosa that just popped into my inbox: "After meeting with our principals today, the decision... |