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July 13, 2006
Old School
DISD trustee Ron Price does everything you expect from a politician. These days that's a problem.
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October 28, 2009
A Very Brief History of the DISD, Ca. 1966
Whilst doing some research for something that may not lead to anything, I've been reading Walter J. E. Schiebel's Education in Dallas: Ninety-two years of History 1874-1966, published by the Dallas Independent School District. So this isn't entirely an exercise in futility, I thought I'd share so ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
So This is What the County Elections Man Meant By a "Dismal" Election Day Turnout
Edwin FloresThis'll most likely be our one and only item about the race for the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees -- because, judging by the early-voting numbers, well, not too many folks seem to be all that interested. Take the hotly contested District 1 race, for instance: In ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
Civility is the Last Thing the DISD Board Needs
Edwin FloresThis'll most likely be our one and only item about the race for the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees -- because, judging by the early-voting numbers, well, not too many folks seem to be all that interested. Take the hotly contested District 1 race, for instance: In ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
When Mayor Leppert Calls A Meeting, Dallas ISD Jumps and Schedules Emergency Jubilee Park Sitdown
Daniel RodrigueAfter yesterday's council meeting, Mayor Leppert slapped in his Bluetooth and dialed up DISD trustee Bernadette Nutall to schedule this morning's meeting.At 9 this morning, many of those facing the loss of their property in the Jubilee Park land grab will meet with their Dallas Ind ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
DISD Trustee Bernadette Nutall Tells Jubilee Parkers: "I Wouldn't Want Anybody to Take My Home."
Bernadette NutallAs expected at 9 this morning, nearly 20 folks assembled in a briefing room at Dallas Independent School District's Ross Avenue HQ to hear what -- if anything -- District 9 school board trustee Bernadette Nutall would have to say about DISD's plans to exercise eminent domain to a ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Jubilee Park-ers' Eminent Domain Hubbub Lands Them a Town Hall Meeting Next Week
O.M. RobertsIt looks like all the hubbub the Jubilee Park residents and and business owners have raised in recent weeks concerning their on-going fight to keep the Dallas Independent School District from seizing their land under eminent domain may be starting to pay off. We finally heard back f ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
During Heated Town Hall, DISD Says It'll Put Off Jubilee Park Land Grab For Six Months
Photos by Daniel RodrigueSo, how many people were at O.M. Roberts last night (jump for it) ...Last night, the Dallas Independent School District played host more than 150 folks in a heated -- though comfortably air-conditioned -- town hall meeting at the century-old O.M. Roberts Elementary School ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
Jubilee Park-ers Know How To Get Readers' Attention: With An Action-Packed Comic Strip!
When Patrick checked in with the Jubilee Park residents last week, we reported that just because the Dallas Independent School District had called for a "time-out" of sorts while it looks at other possible alternative sites for a new site for O.M. Roberts Elementary, one group of home- and busine ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
Dallas ISD Trustees Will, Yet Again, Debate the Merits of Opening Over-Age High School
At the Dallas Independent School District board meeting two weeks ago, the trustees held off on voting yea or nay on Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's plan to open an over-age high school in the 2010-'11 school year. Most agree that, yes, it's probably a very good thing to put, say, college-age h ... More >>
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July 19, 2010
It Took a While, But Dallas ISD Will Introduce Its Over-Age High School Come Fall
Five weeks ago the fate of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's proposed over-age high school was in question, as trustee Bernadette Nutall took the $2-mil proposal from the fast track to the benches for a little look-see. But trustees finally gave it the okee-doke ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
DISD Spares Vickery Greenhouse in Jubilee Park. But Homeowners' Fates Still Uncertain.
Daniel RodriguePat BerryPat Berry, owner of Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse in Jubilee Park, got the call yesterday. On the other end was Dallas Independent School District trustee Bernadette Nutall, who told him the news he'd been hoping to hear for months: The district has shelved its plans to con ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Dallas ISD Trustee Flores on Why District Needs a New "Comprehensive" Policy on Bullying
While we're on the subject, perhaps some required reading?On Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees will take a closer look at a proposed policy: "Freedom from Bullying." District officials say this morning it was an idea proposed, separately, by trustees Edwin Flore ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
Dallas ISD Trustees Take A Look At Ways to Bring More Charter Schools Into the District
A handful of Dallas Independent School District gatheredn the old board room at 3700 Ross this morning to poke at a question with big implications: How can the district get the most of its new partnerships charter schools, possibly even next school year? Born out of April's West Dallas "School Zo ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Days After State Rep. Johnson Weighs In, DISD May Be Backing Off Jubilee Park Land Grab
Daniel RodrigueJubilee Park residents protest DISD's eminent domain suits outside 3700 Ross Ave. earlier this year.Earlier this week, Robert wrote about state Rep. Eric Johnson's October 28 letter to Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, in which Johnson wondered whe ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
The "Imbalance of Power": Dallas ISD Trustees Will Finally Vote Tonight on New Bullying Policy
When we first looked at the Dallas Independent School District's proposed anti-bullying policy one month ago, it was a brief two-page document intended, as trustee Edwin Flores said at the time, to be more "comprehensive" than the existing student code of conduct. But for some, the so-called "Fre ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Why Bernadette Nutall Does Not Support Extending Dallas ISD Trustees' Terms
We already know where Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger stands on extending DISD trustees' terms from three years to four. (She's very against it.) But moments ago, as the board finally got 'round to discussing the subject, District 9 trustee Bernadette Nutall made her ... More >>
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February 19, 2011
Allen Vaught Wants to Plant Grassroots Movement That'll Save DISD's Teachers
Allen Vaught in the Green ZoneBrother Bill Holston directed our attention yesterday to the Facebook page of former state Rep. and movie star Allen Vaught, who writes of "organizing a grassroots program focusing on the legislature and DISD to not gut our schools." I called Vaught at his office at ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Hinojosa Takes a Break from Budget Woes to Break Ground on Ann Richards Middle School
Photos by Patrick MichelsSuperintendent Michael Hinojosa and Dan Richards, Ann Richards' son, turned over the dirt at DISD's newest construction project, flanked by trustees Bernadette Nutall, Carla Ranger and Nancy Bingham.Potted palms and wildflowers flanked the podium at the Ann Richards Middle S ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Students, Parents and Friends Rally at the Wyly to Save Booker T. Washington's Teachers
Photos by Patrick Michels Korey Elizabeth Parker tells a packed Wyly Theater crowd why she's going to fight to protect her teachers' jobs at Booker T. Washington.Fired up over the very real chance that nearly half the teachers at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
DISD Announces Members Of Its First-Ever "Citizens Budget Review Commission"
Sadly, Murray Blum was not available to trim DISD's budget.Two weeks back we noted that at least one person had already been appointed to the Dallas Independent School District's first-ever Citizens Budget Review Commission: Dallas Friends of Public Education's Mike MacNaughton. The commission, m ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Charter School "Streamlining" Proposal Yanked From Dallas ISD's Board Meeting Today
Those tuning in to today's Dallas Independent School District board briefing expecting to hear what was sure to be a heated discussion about how to "streamline the process for implementing a charter school" are out of luck. The item's been pulled, as trustee Carla Ranger pointed out yesterday on ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
DISD Projects $120 Mil Shortfall, Which Would Mean 1,091 Layoffs and No Full-Day Pre-K
It's been a long, contentious meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, and we just got to the latest budget update. First, Carla Ranger wanted to know why Bernadette Nutall, with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's OK, halted construction at a handful of South Dallas sch ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
DISD Board Narrows Its List of Interim Superintendents, Say They'll Decide By Monday
Photos by Patrick MichelsMichael Hinojosa and Edwin Flores bite their lips as trustees Lew Blackburn and Carla Ranger get into it.Brand-new Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn emerged from executive session this afternoon to announce the trustees have narrowed their list ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
As DISD Struggles to Make Budget Cuts This Year, Board Warned It's Only Gonna Get Worse
The Dallas Independent School District board was just told it's "still in limbo" when it comes to the exact dollar figure it can expect in cuts from the state Legislature, though something could land on Gov. Rick Perry's desk as early as late next week. Right now, Senate Bill 1 would take $63 mil ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Dallas ISD Says As Many As 33 Schools May Be Rated Academically Unacceptable
We went over this last year: Despite the fact the Dallas Independent School District board was just given a presentation on preliminary TAKS scores for the school year that just wrapped, the Texas Education Agency won't formally release its 2011 Accountability Ratings till July 29. That said, the ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
"Foolishness in the Extreme": Watch the Dallas ISD School Board Debate the Budget
If you care at all about the fate of the Dallas Independent School District, carve out an hour over the weekend. Then, jump to the other side of this item, where I've posted the entirety of the school board budget discussion to which I referred yesterday (down below too). Now, fair warning: It's ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
"Raising Hell Till Heaven Comes": At Sunday's Fund-Raising Rally For John Wiley Price
Yesterday's "Justice for John" event at the St. Luke "Community" United Methodist Church was all kinds of things: a rally in support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who entered to chants of "John! John! John!" before taking his seat near the back; a fund-raiser for his legal defen ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Decision to Pause '08 Bond-Funded Redos At Some DISD Schools Was Anything But Quiet
Billy Earl Dade Middle School is one of the schools where construction has been halted.Front page of the morning's paper has a pay-walled story about the Dallas Independent School District's decision to "quietly" halt construction on a handful of schools due to receive '08-bond money redos -- qui ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Dallas ISD Trustees Want Superintendent Who's a Team Player "Here For The Right Reasons"
At last night's called meeting of the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees, representatives from PROACT Search, the matchmaking firm hired to help select a superintendent for the district, chatted casually with board members about the qualities they desire in a candidate. " ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Some Thin-Skinned DISD Trustees Want Public to Stop Picking on Them During Board Meetings
Leslie's up shortly with a recap of yesterday discussion about expanding the Dallas Independent School District's calendar, which got further with the trustees than some of the Friends of Unfair Park predicted earlier. I sat through the rest of the meeting to see how the board would handle that $ ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Surprisingly, DISD Trustees Aren't Ruling Out Keeping (Some) Students in School Till July 26
"If you're bad, you will stay in school longer!!!" Well, sure, maybe.At yesterday's Dallas ISD board meeting, trustee Mike Morath had a fairly novel idea regarding the school calendar. Long story short, he said: Let's consider testing the merits of a radical school calendar change that would ... More >>
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November 6, 2011
"If You Don't Respect the Public, Why Are You in Public Service?" One in Carla Ranger's Series.
Billboard designed by Thomas WilsonThough there are a few exceptions to the rule, for the most part any one Dallas City Council member may pull an item from the council's agenda and have it deferred till the next voting agenda meeting. Not so with the Dallas Independent School District, not ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Dallas ISD Trustees Blackburn, Nutall Have Had It With Dallas NAACP Prez's "Slander and Libel"
Via.Juanita WallaceAh, so this is why Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn and trustee Bernadette Nutall want to clamp down on public speakers at school board meetings -- comments made by Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace at the October 20 board meeting. Specifica ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Read Dallas ISD Trustees' "Goals for the Future"
DISD trustees Morath and FloresI didn't have time to tune in yesterday for the entirety of the ad hoc committee meeting of some Dallas Independent School District trustees tasked with rewriting the district's "educational philosophy." At close to two hours, it wasn't a short discussion either -- ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
If You Want to Run For Dallas ISD Board, And Want a PAC's Backing, Fill Out This Essay Test
On May 12 of next year three Dallas Independent School District trustee spots will come up for grabs -- those presently held by Bernadette Nutall, Bruce Parrott and Edwin Flores. (And, depending on which rumors you choose to believe about possible doings on the Dallas County Commissioners Court ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
DISD Trustees Don't Want to Close Campuses. But They're Told: They Have No Other Choice.
The 107-year-old James W. Fannin Elementary, one of nine elementaries the district is likely to close come the 2012-13 school yearLate Thursday afternoon, and only because interim super Alan King had a flight to catch, the Dallas Independent School District trustees finally got around to discussi ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
PAC EducateDallas Endorses Incumbents For Dallas ISD School Board, Give Each 10 Grand
Edwin FloresJust got off the phone with tax attorney Mark Melton, who, as you'll recall, is co-chairing EducateDallas, that political action committee with ties to the Dallas Regional Chamber. I had questions following receipt of a release this afternoon that says the PAC is endorsing two candida ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
What Makes a Super Superintendent, Far as the DISD Trustees Are Concerned? Here You Go.
At the beginning of the Dallas ISD trustees' long day's journey into night, I dialed up the back-and-forth over the superintendent search, as the board at long last debated what makes a super super. That video's archived here. And it was intriguing too, a peek into the thought processes of the bo ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Residence Evil: DISD Trustees Can't Decide Which Employees Should Actually Live in Dallas
Container Store co-founder Garrett Boone and the Star Employee Commission told the Dallas ISD trustees last month that the HR department was ... how did they put it ... well, let's just go with completely, totally and utterly effed. (Look, my kid reads Unfair Park, all right?) And they offered pa ... More >>

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