I 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...
The board's audit committee met this morning to hear an update from district finance staff on steps they've taken to shore up the accounting, oversight and general management of DISD resources. The district's 2007-08 financial books are currently under audit...
UPDATED 9:32 a.m.: Lost in the news of layoffs is the district's plan to shift the salaries of some 300 employees to the federal government, primarily through its Title I grant program. In a nutshell, DISD wants to use an...
Some interesting stuff yesterday's budget briefing didn't make it into the paper this morn because I only had about 30 minutes to bang out a story and I was limited to 300 words. So here it is ... The district...
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