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...
Today'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...
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...
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...
This will be good news for some -- but bad news for others. I just got off the phone with DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander. It appears that the four high schools that the district listed as needing reorganized, or "reconstituted,"...
This would be bigger news on this blog if not for that other little news event we've been wrestling with over here. But here's the lowdown: State Education Commissioner Robert Scott says DISD was wrong to terminate Sharon Toussaint, the...
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...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Board president Jack Lowe numerates the district's recent achievements. ** What does it say when even "the market" won't touch the state's worst schools? ** On reading, writing and critical...
... was posted this morning. A quick perusal found a few things of interest. Lemme know what we missed: ** Big changes coming to Spruce High School: "Under House Bill 1, Texas Education Code 39, Section 39.1324 (e), the commissioner...
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