Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Former Lang principal Robert Peters once again denies having ignored investigators looking into the TAKS cheating incident at the school. DISD officials have said that Peters stopped cooperating with investigators. ** Our...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** (Added item) U.T. Austin is ending its National Merit Scholar program. ** DISD trustee Carla Ranger says that "democracy wins" in referring to the Nov. 3 school board election. Ranger is correct...
I talked to DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa this afternoon about the Lang Middle School TAKS retesting situation. Lest you missed it, about 400 recent eighth-graders at Lang had to interrupt their summer break to retake the TAKS math exam after...
The question has come up as DISD investigates possible cheating on portions of the TAKS exam at Lang Middle School. Click here for the back story, but in a nutshell, district and state officials were tipped off to "severe testing...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** (New item) The Dallas Observer's Unfair Park blog has this item on DISD auctioning 26 pianos. ** The DMN story today on the high number of erasures on TAKS tests at Lang...
I just talked to Texas Education Agency spokeswoman DeEtta Culbertson about the Lang Middle School TAKS test situation. She told me that a high number of erasures on answer documents is what raised eyebrows on the Grade 8 math and...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** (New item) CBS 11 is reporting that recently retired Mansfield ISD Superintendent Vernon Newsom was killed in a motorcycle crash yesterday in South Dakota. ** (New item) The Rev. Gerald Britt, VP...
DISD just released information on the Lang Middle School TAKS math retake for 8th grade students. The passing rate for the math exam decreased by 36 percentage points. More on that later... The other news is that the investigation into...
DISD now has until Sept. 1 to complete an investigation into testing irregularities at Lang Middle School, the Texas Education Agency has confirmed. The district had until Aug. 15 to complete the investigation. DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa had said recently...
Individuals involved with "severe testing irregularities" on the eighth-grade TAKS math exam at Lang Middle School could face felony charges depending on the outcome of a DISD investigation, according to correspondence the district sent to the Texas attorney general's office....
Some recent Lang Middle School eighth graders weren't too happy this morning having to interupt their summer to retake the state's math exam. DISD officials discovered "irregularities" on the April admission of the exam earlier this month, which resulted in...
Dallas ISD is offering tutoring to about 400 recent Lang Middle School eighth graders who need to retake the math TAKS next week because of "severe testing irregularities." The students have to retake the exam on June 30. The tutoring...
DISD trustee Ron Price just told me that he was notified today that all 8th graders at Lang Middle School will have to retake the math portion of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills -- this summer -- because...
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