A colleague yesterday asked me about the magnet school admissions process, and while I was able to talk generally about the procedures, deadlines, etc, I was unable to shed any light on the informal process -- camping out on application...
Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** Nice profile of Skyline teacher/coach Larry Karl. ** Magnet school cattle call! ** The Observer stumbles upon an old NDHS yearbook signed by none other than Barefoot Sanders. ** No! The Eduwonkette...
One issue that I've seen crop up several times has to do with the value of the magnet schools. I've heard people say that the magnet schools are harmful to DISD as a whole because they pull some of the...
A few weeks ago, district trustees got a progress report on Dallas Achieves. The presentation raised the notion that some of DISD's high schools are being held back because magnet schools siphon off their best students. We decided to check...