On next week's board briefing agenda is a proposal to name new schools in the South Dallas area for President Barack H. Obama and new Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor. Trustees won't vote on the matter until Aug. 27, but...
The Hispanic Leadership Forum today issued a press release clarifying remarks that Adelfa Callejo made back in February 2008 concerning then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. The clarification comes just days before an expected contentious vote Thursday by the Dallas school board...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** The state's new accreditation (which allowed DISD to drop out of SACS) nailed some charter schools, but that's about it. ** Remember the discussion we had here last summer about whether learning...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Jim Schutze discovers the Raptor, and says that "Ross Avenue smells of a certain end-times syndrome." ** Our story this morn about expanding trustee terms by one more year. BackTalk...
Senator Obama recently lost some points from the American public with his comments that our children should learn to speak Spanish. All political issues aside, I think it's a pretty good idea. Sure, I'm a world languages (mainly Spanish) teacher,...
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