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Entries tagged with 'Trustee terms'Jack Lowe weighs in on two hot topicsDISD trustees will have a called meeting Thursday that will kick-off with a public forum. Two agenda items up for approval -- trustee terms and school funding cuts -- have been controversial topics these last few weeks. Here's how board... DISD trustees take "appointment" option off the tableThe district just posted the board agenda for Thursday. It looks like the option to appoint individuals to three board seats is no longer on the table. The only option on the agenda up for vote is to have a... DISD trustees given two options to fix election snafu...The three board seats that were supposed to be up for election this week will become vacant after Saturday's election, attorneys told trustees at today's meeting. (Here's the background on how trustees extended their terms from three years to four... DMN editorial board says hold incumbent trustees accountableTomorrow's editorial on the DISD trustee terms is already online, and the board is chastised throughout. It begins like this... Saturday's election ballot should have had three additional races on it - for seats on the Dallas school board. But... DISD board to consider moving forward with a special electionThe DISD school board has called a board meeting for 3:30 p.m. tomorrow to discuss an attorney general opinion that says trustees were "not authorized" to extend their terms last fall. After the meeting, the board will consider moving forward... Proposed bill targets extended terms for DISD trusteesState rep. Yvonne Davis has filed her second DISD-related bill this session. Remember, the first one seeks to split up the district. This one would require a public hearing and approval by voters to extend DISD trustee terms. Not too... Dallas ISD Daily DishToday's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** Some DISD kids designed parade floats, and will get recognized today for the effort. ** Seven Lincoln students are heading to Washington to cover the inauguration. ** Sen. Royce West's law firm... DISD trustee Ranger wins Round 1...I just received a copy of TEA Commissioner Robert Scott's request to the Texas attorney general asking him to offer an opinion on whether DISD trustees legally extended their terms from three years to four. Trustees voted to extend the... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** As predicted, trustees extended their terms last night. Tod Robberson likens the move to that of Third World dictators. CBS 11 and WFAA filed reports. The Observer also gives us... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** The Observer's Buzz column wonders if it should crash Saturday's district party for its foreign hires (some of whom might be caught up in the SSN probe). ** You can... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** The SSN dustup pushes our editorial board closer to asking for Hinojosa's resignation: He "should have on his desk today the resignations of any administrator culpable in this scam. And... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. **DMN editorial on Dallas' future asks what should be done about DISD. **Letter writer says that term extension proposed for DISD trustees looks bad. (5th item) **DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Jim Schutze discovers the Raptor, and says that "Ross Avenue smells of a certain end-times syndrome." ** Our story this morn about expanding trustee terms by one more year. BackTalk... Should DISD trustees have longer terms?DISD trustees will hear a proposal to extend their terms to four years at Thursday's board briefings. Trustees currently serve three-year terms. This is something that came up back in August. Some trustees said back then that extending their terms... |