I just talked to trustee Lew Blackburn. He's undecided about whether to run for re-election for the District 5 seat in May. That's when three more seats are up on the Dallas school board -- Blackburn, Nancy Bingham and Jerome...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Why are there fewer male teachers in K-12? That's the case in Illinois and Dallas. About 29 percent of the teaching force in DISD was male in the 2007-08 school year. **...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** The Texas Watchdog struggles to find a copy of the district's check register on DISD's website. An easy solution is simply to click the "DISD Files" link to the right, where you'll...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** As the economy worsens, the laid off turn to substituting. ** Something tells me this vote will be a referendum on whether residents think the C-F ISD is doing a good job....
Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** The feds could bail DISD out of its budget mess with a $201 million slice of the stimulus pie. Question: Why would giving money to schools stimulate the economy? ** Kids are...
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...
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...
It was a sight watching DISD trustee Lew Blackburn leave his board seat and walk up to a microphone at Thursday night's meeting -- to address the board! (Watch Dr. Blackburn in action by clicking here and forwarding the video...
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...
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...
I don't know who set this up -- but it was obvious that someone asked three DISD employees (Roosevelt HS principal Leich Shaver, Seagoville HS principal Jeff Baker and Superintendent Learning Community administrator Rebecca Good) to bestow praise on the...
UPDATED 4:28 p.m.: Board prez Jack Lowe says this meeting will not take place Monday and that he's not keen on the idea of taking such a vote. "But if they want to do it, we'll do it," he said....
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** The delayed RIF, which you all undoubtedly know about by now. ** The delayed bond sale is going to a mediator. ** Didn't have time to look at DISD's AYP...
A couple of items leftover from last night's board meeting... The district is short on cash, and wants to borrow $125 million to tide it over until state aid starts flowing at the start of the coming school year. How...
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