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Jerome Garza Has a Lot of Friends with Schools Named After Them, Apparently
January 3, 2007If Nothing Else, DISD's New HR Director Has a Fascinating Story
June 29, 2007Bond and Gagged: Notes from Last Night's DISD Board of Trustees Meeting
April 25, 2008Ranger Danger: DISD Trustee Suggests Altering Board Policies
April 25, 2008The Arts Magnet Name Game Headed to Extra Innings
July 25, 2008At DISD Board Meeting, Hinojosa Recommends Cutting ... Everything
September 25, 2008Yet Again, Live From 3700 Ross
October 2, 2008Tomorrow, Carla Ranger's Supporters Will Make Their Case to DCCCD's Board of Trustees
DISD board trustee Carla RangerThe Dallas County Community College District board meets tomorrow at 4 p.m. at 1601 S. Lamar Street, and the confab should be livelier than most. In our in-box this morning, we were among those who received an invite to "Stand in Solidarity for Carla Ranger," the Dallas Independent School District board trustee recently fired, then reassigned, from her longstanding gig with the DCCCD. Says the Xeroxed flier, which you'll find after the jump, "After 20 years of fait
June 1, 2009In the Wake of DISD Layoffs, a Pep Rally and Thank-You Note for Teachers
October 16, 2008School Board's Carla Ranger on DISD: "The Wrong People Are in Charge."
October 29, 2008Carla Ranger on DISD Ethics Policy: How Lowe Can You Go?
October 31, 2008Poll Position
November 4, 2008DISD's Lone Ranger
November 7, 2008Liz Lemon Couldn't Get the Oprah Intro. But Please Welcome Dalton Sherman!
November 13, 2008D? Well, Maybe D-.
Look, let me take one specific portion of the D special issue about the Dallas Independent School District that came out this week and use it to explain why I don’t think much of this stuff is worth reading. This was a sidebar under the byline of our former colleague, Mark Stuertz, who was famous around here for being a meticulous investigative reporter (and erudite food critic). I mean, he is robot metal-detector, Geiger counter kind of fact-digger. Stuertz just doesn’t miss stuff. Bu
November 13, 2008Take it to the Limit: When Will the DISD Board Believe Carla Ranger?
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Jack Lowe and several of the Dallas Independent School District trustees keep insisting their push to extend term limits, from three to four years, is plenty legal. Which is why, at 5:30 p.m. today, the board will indeed vote on a resolution that does just that -- gives them a bonus year. You can read the resolution yourself and see the justification for the move: Section 11.065 of the Texas Education Code, so cited in this October 21 memo from attorney
November 20, 2008At 3700 Ross Avenue Last Night, It Got Nasty. Then, It Got Even Worse.
Jack Lowe, DISD school board president Blacks were hissing rudely at Hispanics. Hispanics were yelling at other Hispanics. And just about everyone was taunting distraught school board trustees, themselves appearing to teeter on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Ladies and gentleman, this is your Dallas Independent School District. Last night, the DISD's trustees voted to suspend next year’s elections and change their own terms from three years to four amid an endless chorus of catcalls
November 21, 2008Trustee Carla Ranger: "The Dallas ISD Culture is One of Arrogance, Deceit, Cover-up and Cronyism."
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Took her a few days for her to respond, but, at last, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger has posted a lengthy essay concerning the school board's Thursday-night vote to extend the trustees' terms from three to four years. Ranger, who's already called the action illegal on numerous occasions, this morning begins her essay by quoting Molly Ivins before cutting to the chase:Last week's 7-2 vote on adopting four year terms was a reflect
November 26, 2008Carla Ranger Also Has No Confidence in Fellow DISD Trustee Ron Price
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger The day before Halloween, three Dallas Independent School District board members -- Ron Price, Lew Blackburn and Carla Ranger -- told board president Jack Lowe, in writing, that they were calling for a "no-confidence vote" against superintendent Michael Hinojosa. Lowe repeatedly ignored the request, despite Ranger's insistence during several board meetings last month. As well documented here, she's fed up with her fellow trustees and the superintendent,
December 12, 2008Dallas ISD to Learn Some Interesting Legal Lessons Come January's End
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger End of January's shaping up to be busy, busy, busy for the Dallas Independent School District. Says school board trustee Carla Ranger on her blog this a.m., Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has set a January 19 deadline for the DISD, the Texas Education Agency and "other interested parties" to submit briefs pro or con the school board's decision to extend its term limits from three years to four. Ranger -- vehemently opposed to the extension of term li
December 22, 2008So, No One Else Is Worked Up About DISD Board's Vote to Extend Term Limits? OK, Then.
Yesterday was the deadline for "interested parties" to send to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas briefs concerning the Dallas Independent School District board of trustee's vote to extend their term limits from three to four years. Carla Ranger, of course, is the only trustee against the extension, branding the board's actions as illegal on numerous occasions and "a danger to democratic rule" in November. On December 3, Robert Scott, the state's Commissioner of Education, asked Attorne
January 20, 2009State Rep. Yvonne Davis Proposes Bill That Would Bust-Up Dallas School District
Till late last week, the formerly prolific Carla Ranger hadn't posted to her blog for most of 2009. But the Dallas Independent School District board member has returned, and today she points our attention to state Rep. Yvonne Davis's H.B. 3532 introduced late last week, which calls for "the abolition of existing school districts in certain counties" -- including Dallas -- "and the creation of new school districts." Dallas isn't named, but it fits the profile: It's "located in a county with a pop
March 16, 2009Carla Ranger May Not Stand for the Trimming of DISD Teachers' Contracts to One Year
DISD school board trustee Carla RangerA Friend of Unfair Park who teaches in the Dallas Independent School District directs our attention to school board trustee Carla Ranger's blog, because we missed last night's post concerning a proposal to trim teachers' minimum contracts from two years to one. (The max, incidentally, appears to be five.) Writes Ranger in her introduction to a teacher's plea:The latest proposal to cut teacher contracts from two years to one may further weaken teacher confid
March 19, 2009Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad.
Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008
January 1, 2009How Can DISD's Michael Hinojosa Still Love His Job—and Keep It?
December 11, 2008DISD: Hitting Bottom, Then Reaching for a Shovel to Dig Deeper
Explanations be damned. There is only one justifiable response to the worst fiscal disaster in DISD history.
November 27, 2008DISD In the Hole
Teachers get axed and parents fret as Dallas' school leaders scramble to cover a budget hole
October 9, 2008DISD's Budget Shortfall: Hinojosa's One-Man Gaffe
September 25, 2008Carla Ranger Is Stunned and Saddened by Sudden "Removal" From Position at DCCCD
DISD board trustee Carla RangerI've left a message for Wright Lassiter, chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District; he is at a meeting and not expected to return till later today. I've called the law offices of Jerry Prater, chair of DCCCD's board of trustees; he is out of the office and not expected to return till tomorrow. For both, I have the same question: Why was Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger told yesterday that her contract with DCCCD -- where she
May 19, 2009Carla Ranger Believes Targeting of DISD Learning Centers is "Racial Politics"
DISD trustee Carla RangerYesterday, Tawnell Hobbs summarized the debate over the fate of the Dallas Independent School District's learning centers, created by court order in the 1980s to "return disadvantaged, inner-city, minority students to their neighborhood schools and provide quality educational programs with supplementary funds," as the district's Web site puts it. District officials were told last week that funding at the centers will have to be cut further to reduce
April 16, 2009Tongue Twisted
A Spanish-language requirement reopens old wounds at DISD
November 30, 2006DISD Trustee Carla Ranger Writes of Texas AG's Opinion: "Voting Rights Have Been Sacrificed on the Alter of Political Power."
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott"Bummer." That's how Dallas Independent School District board trustee Edwin Flores initially responded yesterday when Unfair Park asked for comment concerning the Texas Attorney General's opinion yesterday that the board "was not authorized to change the length of its members' terms of office" from three to four years last November. Then he said some other stuff, like how maybe there might have to be a special election, but, well, maybe someone will have to sue
May 1, 2009Courting Disapproval? DISD Board to Meet With Attorney to Discuss Texas AG's Opinion.
Woodrow Wilson High SchoolLast week, the Texas Attorney General's Office offered its opinion that the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees "was not authorized to change the length of its members' terms of office" from three to four years last November. Which has prompted a called board meeting at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, during which the board will discuss the opinion and consult with its attorney. But, more significantly, the board will consider a "motion to instruct school board c
May 4, 2009Right Now, the DISD Board is Probably Yelling At Each Other Behind Closed Doors
DISD board trustee Ron PriceAs I noted, earlier Jim's at 3700 Ross Avenue, where, at this very moment, the board of trustees is behind closed doors, no doubt arguing over the ramifications of the Texas Attorney General's opinion that the trustees should not have extended their terms from three years to four last November. Jim filed this moments ago, just as the board disappeared -- "for hours, I fear," said Dr. Schutze, who's too scared to leave and lose his seat in the packed house.As soon as t
May 5, 2009DISD Board Has Two Options: Special Election or Appointments. Not So Fast, Says Ranger.
DISD school trustee Carla RangerWhen last we left the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees yesterday, they had come back from their closed-door meeting and presented two options to deal with the Texas Attorney General's opinion concerning the extension of terms from three to four years: special elections or appointments to fill the seats of Edwin Flores, Leigh Ann Ellis and Ron Price, whose terms are ostensibly up this Sunday. This morning, Carla Ranger, who had asked for the opi
May 6, 2009Magnet Mayhem: DISD Trustees Seem Hell-Bent on Gutting the Crown Jewels of the District, and for No Good Reason
Allied Works ArchitectureThe Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual ArtsThe Dallas Independent School District is about to do massive damage to its magnet school and learning center programs. The magnets represent the best of the district's academic efforts. The learning centers are the last remaining legacy of a successful decades-long court battle to cleanse the district of apartheid. The administration, a majority of the school board and the district's lawyers ar
May 8, 2009Carla Ranger Wonders If the DISD Board of Trustees Is About to "Commit Fraud"
Late into last night, there erupted at the bottom of Schutze's Tuesday post -- concerning the Dallas Independent School District board's threat to needlessly gut the magnets and learning centers -- a discussion about "commitments and covenants." Those are what the district adopted in '03 to get out from under Judge Barefoot Sanders's desegregation order -- and the very things that are in place to keep the district from doing to the magnets and learning centers what Superintendent Michael Hinojos
May 13, 2009DISD's Attempt to Gut Magnets, Learning Centers Gets Uglier With Every Misstep
Patrick MichelsThe scene outside 3700 Ross Avenue last nightLast night's decision by the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees to delay voting on budget cuts for the district's enhanced schools was more than just a stall. The debate leading up to that decision shed a little more light on the question most people watching all this have been asking for the last several weeks:What the hell?Why in the world would the Dallas Independent School District want to screw up its magnet sc
May 15, 2009Ranger Says DISD Board Was (Is?) Trying "To Cancel the May 2009 Board Officer Elections"
DISD board trustee Carla RangerOn Monday, Tawnell Hobbs posted a poll in which she asked readers of The News's Dallas ISD Blog, "Who should be the next DISD board prez?" Perhaps not surprisingly, the outspoken Carla Ranger -- who led the charge to overturn the board's decision not to hold 2009 elections, and who fought to keep the district from cutting funding from magnets and learning centers -- is leading by a mile with 78 percent of the 348 votes cast. But Ranger writes on her blog this morni
May 20, 2009In Firing Carla Ranger, DCCD Official Cites "Budget Constraints and Reorganization"
Still no word from Dallas County Community College District officials concerning their decision to terminate Carla Ranger's contract, thus ending her 20-year tenure with DCCCD. But late last night, the Dallas Independent School District board trustee did post to her blog her short-and-sweet termination letter, which, she writes, was hand-delivered on Monday with no further follow-up.According to the letter, written by DCCCD Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs W.G. Garland, Ranger's posi
May 22, 2009What the What? Carla Ranger's Firing Has Suddenly Turned into "Radical Demotion."
DISD board trustee Carla RangerI've given up trying to get answers from Dallas County Community College District officials concerning the firing of Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger last week; all we have to go on is this letter from DCCCD Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs W.G. Garland, which Ranger posted to her blog at the end of last week. But since last we left this incident, a most curious turn of events has taken place: Ranger writes today that she's been o
May 26, 2009In Gutting Learning Centers, the Dallas ISD Clearly Has Learned Nothing in 39 Years
Sam Tasby, who sued the DISD in 1970, when his son Phillip was denied admission to two all-white schools near the Tasby residenceWell, we have now officially turned our back on school desegregation. I'm sure some of you will be thrilled. Personally, I'm sitting here at my computer in the back corner of a darkened house at a quarter to two in the morning, and I feel more like throwing up.At a little past 1 this morning, led by board member Edwin Flores, the whites and Hispanics on the board (wit
May 29, 2009In Federal Court, a Former Dallas ISD Principal Fights For Her Old Job, Salary
While on PACER this morning, I came across a lawsuit against the Dallas Independent School District about which not one word has been written: 55-year-old Lilia Gutierrez, a former principal at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, is suing the district, claiming, among other things, that she was wrongfully demoted in June 2008 -- after having elevated the school from "academically acceptable" to "recognized." She also had her salary reduced by almost $20,000 and was replaced at Bethune by a 38
June 19, 2009Wherein Carla Ranger Refers to Her Fellow Dallas ISD Trustees as "Dastardly"
DiSD trustee Carla RangerMissed this one yesterday, mostly because Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger doesn't post to her blog as often as she used to. But one thing's got her attention: Fellow trustee Ron Price's proposal to rename schools for President Barack Obama and Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of myriad subjects on the school board's briefing agenda today. Writes Ranger, she's still pissed off about how Price, Jerome Garza, Lew Blackburn and others tan
August 13, 2009Trustee Points to "Serious Violations" Found in Audit of DISD's Adult Basic Education Program
The Dallas Independent School District's Adult Basic Education Program is available to all "adult learners and educationally disadvantaged adults in Dallas and Rockwall counties" who want to learn about, well, you name it -- everything from English to math, computer skills to parenting skills. So says this 2007-2008 at-a-glance, in which it's also explained that the money for this program comes from the feds and the state.Carla Ranger was even more specific in a blog item posted late last nig
August 25, 2009Dallas ISD Spokesman Says District's Been Working to Fix Adult Basic Ed Since March
We end the day where we began the day, if only because we've finally spoken with Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander concerning the critical internal audit of the Adult Basic Education Program, funded last year with $3.7 million in grant money. We were expecting to post the audit itself, which is 15 pages, but school district attorneys instead forced reporters to submit open records requests -- which means we may see the document sometime in the next, oh, two weeks. May
August 25, 2009At 3700 Ross Avenue Today, Fighting for an Old School ... and a Battle For Democracy!
Galactic ButterflyAs the Friends of Unfair Park can probably guess, there were two good reasons why we suffered through nearly four hours of a Dallas Independent School District board of trustees briefing today. The first: the fate of W. H. Adamson High School, whose historic main building district officials want to demolish. The second: a certain amendment to the public participation code that cuts down the amount of time any parent, student or wingnut has to address the board. The meeting s
September 10, 2009DISD Off: Ranger Attacks Fellow Trustees' "Destructive and Self-Serving Agenda"
DISD trustee Carla RangerIn case you missed it, on Tuesday Tawnell Hobbs published Dallas Independent School District trustee Jack Lowe's list of things he's looking for in an "ideal" trustee. Among his bullet points: "Supports our vision of being the best urban school district in the country." Fantastic. "Makes courageous decisions for the good of the whole district even when it is politically risky." Right on. "Focuses on students and student achievement, not jobs and contracts." Hmmm, real
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