Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** What am I missing? $4.6 million in textbooks sit unused in an Irving ISD warehouse, yet a district official says it's not "wasteful." Well, that's $4.6 million that you don't have to...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Dallas County Schools have put 28 "green" buses on the road of late. ** Gerald Britt of the Central Dallas Ministries is underwhelmed by DISD's plans for its low-performing high schools. In...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** A student from Carr Elementary was hit and killed yesterday. CBS 11 says the driver was a school counselor. ** The state's pull back on school bond guarantees will last through the...
Today'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...
Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** Hinojosa was just on Hoy en America this morn. Did anybody catch it? ** I missed a birthday. NCLB turned 6 yesterday. ** UT "has "lost control of its admissions" and wants...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** I'd smile too if the Guv just handed me a check for $10.5 million. ** The state now can determine how GPA's are calculated for Top 10 percent purposes. **...
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