Dallas Independent School District

The TEA Hands DISD Its Report Card

Loose in the Lab​Here's a fun weekend activity: Scroll through the Texas Education Agency's accountability ratings for the Dallas Independent School District, which were released this afternoon. (You can go here for the full statewide breakdown by district, region, etc., while KTVT-Channel 11's St ... More >>

DISD's Done With These Pianos, Man

Because it's the Dallas Independent School District, well, that's why they had to stick the pink "piano" sign on the, um, piano. Went back to Lone Star Auctions this morning to check on how my horse bidding was going, and I noticed quite the steal -- once again courtesy the Dallas Independent S ... More >>

Report: DISD's Not Over-Staffed. Not Unless You're Talking About "Administrative Staff."

The Dallas Independent School District has just posted to its Web site a report titled Staffing Levels in the Dallas Independent School District Report, which was compiled on the school board's behalf by the Council of the Great City Schools. The board wondered, quite simply, Is the district oversta ... More >>

DOJ to Dallas ISD: Pay Up. And Say Adios to $150 Million in Federal Funding Requests.

This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

Moody's Blues: Dallas Independent School District's Bond Credit Ratings Slip

In a subscription-only story published this morning, The Bond Buyer notes that both Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's have downgraded their ratings of the Dallas Independent School District. Both still consider the district a relatively safe investment, but the downgrades reflect a ... More >>

And Now, For Some Good DISD News ...

Thomas Jefferson High School, which, ahem, some of us have always recognized as one of DISD's finest learning establishmentsBased on preliminary calculations and TAKS results, a record number of Dallas Independent School District campuses are poised to be classified as "recognized" or "exemplary" b ... More >>

DISD Lawyer Says There Are No Waivers For Magnets. But, You See, He's Wrong.

Woodrow Wilson High SchoolAt about 5:50 pm today, I received a call from a Fort Worth attorney, Ben Barlow, representing the Dallas Independent School District on the magnet school and learning center issue. He informed me that my piece posted to Unfair Park on Friday night was dead wrong and that ... More >>

DISD 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 yea ... More >>

As DISD Shuts Down its First Campus Due to Swine Flu, What Happens After That?

Just got off the phone with Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, who, moments ago, announced that the district is closing Daniel Webster Elementary from tomorrow till May 11 due to one confirmed case of the swine flu at that campus. (It will remain open throughout today to acc ... More >>

Carla 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 ... More >>

DISD's About to Get Very Stimulated

Library of CongressBy now, perhaps, you've read that some $104,070,000 of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package will wind up in the pockets of the Dallas Independent School District. (If your kids aren't in the DISD, you can see how your district fared in the sweepstakes by checking out this site ... More >>

So, 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 e ... More >>

Dallas 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 Ag ... More >>

DISD's Lone Ranger

DISD's Ghosts of Scandals Past

If history tells us anything, the recent security crackdown at DISD signals doom for its superintendent.

TEA, Legislators Meet with Hinojosa to Discuss DISD's Direction, We Suppose

DISD's Also Sending Recruiters to the Laid-Off DISD Employee Job Fair

"One of the Darkest Days in the History of the Dallas ISD."

"Pause for Response."

Crises Management

Well, When You Put It Like That

The Scene From 3700 Ross Yesterday

Today, the DISD Began Laying Off "At-Will" Employees Against Their Will

Ah, Yes. But What About the Children?

DISD Offers a Sneak Preview of What's to Come (and Who's to Go)

DISD Board Declares "State of Financial Exigency," But Will Not Call for Reduction in Force -- Not Yet

In Dallas, Turban Good, Rosary Bad

DISD's "State of Financial Exigency"

Have a Superintendent First Day of School, DISD Students

DISD Explains Its New "Effort-Based" Grading Policy, At Great Length

From Opening for Maya Angelou to Kicking Off the School Year

The TEA Threatens "Alternative Management" or Closure For DISD's "Unacceptable" Schools

Homework's for Suckers

I Too Was "Academically Acceptable"

Ethics 101

In Long-Overdue Audit, DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa Sees "A Roadmap for Improvement"

A Music and Arts Education For All DISD Kids? Why, That's Elementary.

DISD Doesn't Deserve to Win Its Bond Election Because of Its Fiscal Incompetence

DISD: First They Hid the Audit. Now, They're Hiding The First Scapegoat.

DISD Now $316,000 Lighter

Nightline Serves Up "Cheese" Segment Tonight

Wherein Allen Gwinn Wonders if DISD Hasn't Just Wasted Another Million Dollars and a Whole Lot of Time

A Broad Gap for DISD to Clear

A Teacher Sues DISD, Claiming It Manufactured Evidence, Scared Him Into Quitting and Landed Him in Jail. For Starters.

Light the Corners

Where's the fun at DISD?

Go Down Moses

Abusurd

How DISD tells teachers to teach

Letters

letters for the issue of May 22

Best elementary school

Stonewall Jackson Elementary

Follow the Grades

The real fraud at DISD is in test scores, not money