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Entries tagged with 'RIF'Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Plano ISD employees face a RIF, but not teachers and not because the district's accountants can't count. ** DISD has Steve Salazar's support. (4th item down) ** BackTalk calls Hinojosa's PR push... Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** Oh boy. Two teens accuse a DISD teacher of some very bad things. **RIF'd teachers get their last paychecks today. Some fear problems. If you've been shortchanged in your final check, drop... Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** The Center for American Progress writes about how seniority rules in teacher firings can kill a district's teaching corps. And for some reason they cite Dallas as an example, even though seniority... Trustees to get a post mortem today on the budget debacleAt a public 3 p.m. meeting today, the board's independent auditor will give them his report on how district spending careened into a ditch last year. This will probably stand as the "official" account of what happened and why. Of... Exhibit A on why trustees should read this blog ...UPDATED AFTER THE JUMP... because it'll help keep them from making assertions that aren't true. You see, over at the Observer's blog, they're running a 725-part series of interview excerpts with district trustees on the topic of "What do you... Good news, bad news: A 2008-09 budget updateI 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... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** DISD gave some workers other people's Social Security numbers to help get them on the payroll faster. Sheesh. ** CBS 11 attended the RIF gripe session yesterday. So did WFAA.... Today's Lunch Menu: Beef(s)DISD employees who were RIF'd will have a chance to tell top officials whether they have a beef with the layoff process at lunchtime today, according to Alliance/AFT. Yes, you read it correctly. Between 12:30 - 4:00 p.m, laid off... Questions remain, answers elusive in budget debacleShould I stop holding my breath? Because my colleague Lori Stahl's story this morning sure makes it look like there will be no post-mortem on exactly how and why the district's spending ran into a ditch last year. Which is... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Among those injured in a horrific accident Sunday was a colleague of mine and a DISD teacher who was once beaten badly in her classroom. ** Texas Tele-grammy shed some... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** This is going to be an important week for the superintendent, who told a Saturday gathering that he has no intention of resigning. ** Two DISD editorials: One likes the... Some RIF'ers got rehired Tuesday(Reposting this because a server swap deleted it from yesterday. Comments left on this post yesterday are gone. My apologies.) About 60 teachers who were laid off two weeks go are back with the district, filling vacancies created when more... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Lots of letters re: DISD in yesterday's Points section. ** An "Unworthy Bum" blogs about the "Truett Trailer Park." ** A community columnist writes that the layoffs, while sad, are... Transferred DISD teachers: How's it going?We're bumping this post from Monday to today because we want to hear more from the hundreds of teachers who were transferred to other campuses. Comments left on other threads indicate there are some problems -- government teachers getting reassigned... This week's Comment of the Week goes to ...So sorry, faithful readers, for the delay in publishing this week's Golden COW Award. With 953 comments to choose from this time around, it took me more than a little while to plow through them. That and I was out... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** James Ragland tees off on the proposed ethics policy. ** The full story from yesterday's job fair. CBS 11 has a report, too. ** DISD's budget woes turns up in... Some DISD trustees' businesses (or homes) will be picketed, says community activistsSome community activists want Superintendent Michael Hinojosa fired, like yesterday, and they plan to hold "roving" pickets at the homes and/or businesses of DISD board members who support him. "DISD trustees who voted for the RIF and who continue to... School in Japan seeks two Pre-K teachersRecently laid off? Got a sense of adventure? I received a note from a principal who runs an American school in Japan. He seeks teachers. The note: Kent, I just read your article concerning the teachers that have just been... An early report from the DISD job fairColleague Tawnell Hobbs is at the district job fair this morning and files this dispatch from the field: The place is packed with people, many of whom are optimistic that they'll soon land a job. Trouble is, Tawnell reports, only... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Noted education researcher Jay Greene blogs that, despite DISD's layoffs, teachers are insulated from the tough economy. ** BackTalk gives some ideas on how the district and city could move... |