Re: "Plan aids young Hinojosa -- District defends program meant for disadvantaged," Saturday news story. On an almost weekly basis you can open The Dallas Morning News and find a story on DISD. I understand the need for everything, good...
We're talked about this before but now the deed has been done. At a an hour when most people were in bed, the DISD board voted early this morning to slash funding at magnet schools and learning centers. The learning...
I keep ping-ponging between the sides in DISD's debate over whether to cut learning center funds. On Viewpoints this morning, we included two op-eds on the topic, one from Gerald Britt, arguing that DISD hasn't pursued waivers to exempt learning...
Re: "Hinojosa goal: Mend fences, rebuild trust -- Restored confidence at heart of yearlong public relations blitz," Friday Metro. DISD's public relations blitz is all talk and no action. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa seeks to court the press, teachers and business...
Re: "Price on Hinojosa: 'No confidence' -- Trustee cites 'recent blunders' ahead of school chief's review," Thursday Metro. Early on in the teacher layoff fiasco, DISD trustee Ron Price stated that Superintendent Michael Hinojosa should not be replaced because there...
Re: "Executive advisers won't 'dig up past' -- Panel won't seek deficits' causes, will suggest safeguards," Monday news story. The only reason the panel isn't looking into the causes for the budget shortfall is that DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa is...
I spent some time yesterday talking to a veteran DISD teacher I know. She survived the RIFs, but she is incandescently angry at Hinojosa , the school board and at the entire administration. We talked for half an hour, and...
Watch this incredible, heartbreaking video TDMN shot yesterday outside San Jacinto Elementary, interviewing laid-off teachers and sobbing children....
If you aren't reading the paper's invaluable DISD blog and its accounts of fired teachers having to tell their students goodbye abruptly because of the spectacular incompetence and mismanagement of Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and his team, you really are missing...
I spoke over the weekend to a friend who's a longtime DISD teacher. She said that if Superintendent Michael Hinojosa showed up on her campus, he'd be taking his life into his own hands. She was kidding. Mostly. She said...
Over at D magazine's FrontBurner, honcho Wick Allison agrees with "95 percent" of our editorial last week that stopped short of calling for DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's head over this $64 million spending overrun. I'm not sure if 95 percent...
Optimists about DISD remind me of that old line about second marriages representing "the triumph of hope over experience." It just got a lot harder to be optimistic about that mess on Ross Avenue. As TDMN reports today, the DISD...
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