Domingo Garcia, a Dallas defense lawyer, civil rights activist and former Dallas City Council member, told me this morning that he's considering running for the school board District 7 seat in the May election. Trustee Jerome Garza says he will...
Yesterday's monthly board briefing lasted nearly eight hours, and I got a notebook of items worth blogging. Early in the meeting, Superintendent Hinojosa spoke cryptically about a bit announcement "coming soon" involving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He didn't...
The board's audit committee met this morning to hear an update from district finance staff on steps they've taken to shore up the accounting, oversight and general management of DISD resources. The district's 2007-08 financial books are currently under audit...
Last Spring word got out that trustee Jerome Garza tried to recruit a candidate to run against fellow board member Carla Ranger. He was, and continues to be, pilloried by commentors on this blog and elsewhere for that effort, which...
... explaining the new grading rules. You can read the transcript and watch the video here....
Things got a little testy toward the end of last night's trustee meeting. Carla Ranger was making a speech about trustee ethics, and how disappointed she is that she can't her proposed new ethics policy on the agenda. She went...
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