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Entries tagged with 'Spruce High School'Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Sampruce will become ... magnets? ** DISD was one of many local employers seeking visas for immigrant workers while they laid off citizens. [ducking] But it's primarily because of this. ** Carla... School Board to Sampruce: We believe!A number of trustees last night kinda spouted off over our coverage of their indecision over what to do with Samuell Spruce debate. (Heretofore to be called Sampruce.) Trustee Edwin Flores got the party started early in the meeting. He... Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Hinojosa said he wants to reconsider the district's policy of charging PTSAs to use school facilities. ** The Opinionaters are displeased over a lack of improvement plans for Spruce and Samuell. The... Spruce and Samuell to become single sex schools?That's the new plan, if students at both schools fail to demonstrate adequate progress on their TAKS scores this spring. Earlier, the plan was to do a Spruce-like restructuring circa 2008, where some grades would be dispersed to other campuses... Trustees say state rules on Academically Unacceptable 5-year closures 'unrealistic'District trustees are balking at several proposals to revamp Spruce and Samuell high schools, saying time is too short and state demands are too extreme to pull off the changes before the start of the next school year. The two... Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Hinojosa: "To be sure, DISD still has its share of challenges. We are working diligently to improve the level of instruction at schools designated as academically unacceptable, and we know that not... What to do about DISD's AU 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... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Two lawsuit-related district items: Spruce suit dropped; family sues over son's gym class death. ** Editorial: House calls could help lure back drop outs. If only it were that easy... Was Spruce's fate sealed way back in 2003?This education blog recently had an interesting post regarding the "reconstitution" of Douglass High School in Baltimore -- this is the school featured in an HBO documentary that we blogged about a little bit this summer. The second sentence got... Spruce off to an "unexpected" good startI admit that I expected to walk into Spruce High School on Monday to a lot of chaos. It was the first day of school after all, compounded by the fact that the consistently low-performing campus had been gutted of... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Yesterday's back to school blog, in case you missed it. You can also read the district's press release. ** Hinojosa to make State of the District speech next month. **... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Congrats to the seven district teachers named fellows to the Texas Instruments' STEM Academy. (Sorry for the small-print web page on the press release ... I'm seeking a more legible... Spruce parents lose first roundAn 11th-hour attempt by some parents to keep DISD from moving students from Spruce High School has failed. But the group is still moving forward with their lawsuit. Check out the story. To read the lawsuit, click here. Click here... Spruce staff revved up and ready to goThe virtually new Spruce High School staff just got out of a staff meeting and is enthused about beginning the school year afresh. Those of you who keep up on DISD happenings know that Spruce has been pretty much gutted... Spruce reorg is gonna costIt's not going to be cheap reorganizing Spruce High School. Other than paying the costs for specialized magnet-like programs that are supposed to transform the school, the district must provide transportation for hundreds of students being reassigned to Lincoln and... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Consultant: What's good for the ethical goose is good for the ethical gander. ** Orientation sessions scheduled for Spruce students and their new high schools. ** A blogging DISD teacher... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Orientations for Spruce High students are a What the media, blogs and others are saying today.">few weeks away. ** A blogger alleges shenanigans over a new AG ruling that says... New Spruce principal announcedAlthough astute readers of this blog learned this tidbit a week ago (see the second comment on this thread), the district made the official announcement today: Dr. Lucy Hakemack (right) is moving to Spruce from the Early College High School... Our very first 'Comment of the Week' awardWe're starting a new Monday feature today where we'll honor, with extra special attention, the *best* reader-written comment we received from the previous week. Call it the Golden COW Award, short for the Comment of the Week. This blog receives... 'The Plundering of Spruce'Up from the depths of the Spruce High reorg discussion comes former Spruce teacher Sondra Tyler. The current college prof writes eloquently -- and piercingly -- about the reorganization of her former school. Her words were too good to be... |