DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa just delivered some big news at his monthly meeting with the press. According to preliminary TAKS numbers, Spruce High School will definitely make it off the state's low-performing list, and the district is 95 percent certain...
Should students in some of DISD's worst performing campuses have a longer school year? That's a question that will be discussed at today's board briefings. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will roll out a plan that he believes will help struggling schools....
That's a question to get a lot of debate at tomorrow's monthly board briefing as two campuses -- Samuell and Spruce -- may well find themselves the district's first Year 5 Academically Unacceptable schools. Five other schools could find themselves...
TEA has assigned a "monitor" to work alongside district folk efforting to turn around three of the district's chronically low-performing schools. Unfair Park had it first. However, the monitor has no real power, as she can't hire or fire, has...
So the big news at today's board briefing, I hear, is going to be a radical shake-up at Spruce High School, where test scores were pretty awful for the fourth-straight year. I spoke with somebody yesterday who's seen the plan...
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