Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Interesting nugget on our Opinion Blog about one staffer alleging that parents were hand-picked to meet with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa at her school. ** Some North Texas school districts and Dallas County Schools, which...
A blog-reading book lover passes along a few e-mails about some recent changes to the district's performance pay plan. The feds have disallowed bonus checks for librarians (aka media specialists) because they are "non-instructional staff." In other words, the feds...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** The teachers whose principals screwed up will get their bonus pay after all. ** Our report on the official word on the whys and hows of the budget implosion. **...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** DISD dodged a multi-million dollar bullet by selling its bonds just a few days ago, as Texas has suspended its backing of school bonds. ** The district's "boatgate" scandal appears...
More than 1,200 Dallas public school employees received bonuses in their monthly paychecks today, the first ones handed out through a new effort to reward workers for boosting student achievement. The bonuses ranged from several hundred dollars for non-classroom workers...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Remember the good ole days when the bonds were the biggest story in town? Seems so long ago, doesn't it? The Observer thinks the district's supporters in this case are...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Mind of a Flapjack has some interesting ideas on TAKS "sub groups." ** Slate delves into merit pay. Wonder how long before DISD steals that idea from D.C.? ** The...
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. **...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Something very similar to DISD's high school redesign effort has just been declared a failure by a research study. And by "failure" they meant better test scores. But resulting in...
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