I just talked to DISD trustee Jack Lowe. He had much to say, but the most important thing to note is that he will not seek re-election when his term is up in 2011. Lowe has held the District 2...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** (New item) Bad news for DISD trustee Jack Lowe. Zale Corp., where he is chairman, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting matters. **DISD Supt. Michael Hinojosa points...
I talked to Dallas school board District 9 candidate Sally Cain this week about concerns some blacks have with her being supported by trustee Jack Lowe. The fear is that Cain would be a slam dunk vote for Lowe, who...
DISD trustee Jack Lowe has drafted a list of 12 qualities he believes makes the "Ideal Dallas ISD Board Candidate." Lowe said he put the list together because he "was trying to find good candidates to run." Lowe's list touches...
DISD trustees will have a called meeting Thursday that will kick-off with a public forum. Two agenda items up for approval -- trustee terms and school funding cuts -- have been controversial topics these last few weeks. Here's how board...
Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** Some DISD kids designed parade floats, and will get recognized today for the effort. ** Seven Lincoln students are heading to Washington to cover the inauguration. ** Sen. Royce West's law firm...
I 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...
That's because, once the district becomes excellent, he figures you'll realize it on your own. That's one of the interesting items Matt Pulle posts over at the Observer blog from an interview he had recently with Jack Lowe, conducted while...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** I missed this link from yesterday: Carla Ranger says Jack Lowe is did wrong by not holding a meeting requested by three trustees. ** No changes to the state board...
Say what you want about board president Jack Lowe (and, lately, you guys have said plenty) but the guy doesn't run from his critics. Carlos Quintanilla's posse of picketers gathered in front of Lowe's house on Saturday, much like they...
UPDATED 3:56 P.M. Yesterday's bombshell that the district is $64-million in the red is, as we say in the news biz, still developing. So what I've got for you now is bunch of loose ends, background info and random tidbits...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Board president Jack Lowe numerates the district's recent achievements. ** What does it say when even "the market" won't touch the state's worst schools? ** On reading, writing and critical...
So says D magazine publisher Wick Allison. In a column in the August edition of his magazine, Wick writes that all the recent squabbles, confrontations, dust-ups and screaming about Dallas Achieves, the Superintendent and the school board is nothing more...
A couple of folks protested outside Dallas school board president Jack Lowe's office Wednesday morning. Mr. Lowe, chairman of the board of TD Industries, was across town at Bryan Adams High School at the time. The protestors said they were...
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