Subject: Edwin Flores

• School Board, Never Boring

  May 26, 2006

• An Arts Magnet By Any Other Name

  July 22, 2008

• DISD Board of Trustees No Doubt Thrilled About Tomorrow's Meeting

  July 23, 2008

• The Arts Magnet Name Game Headed to Extra Innings

  July 25, 2008

• Teachers, If You Could Use Some Extra $ in the Classroom, Raise Your Hands

  September 11, 2008

• DISD Trustee Edwin Flores on Budget Shortfall: "We Need a Revolution."

  September 12, 2008

• At DISD Board Meeting, Hinojosa Recommends Cutting ... Everything

  September 25, 2008

• Yet Again, Live From 3700 Ross

  October 2, 2008

• Meet a Real Live DISD Trustee!

  Edwin Flores Northwest Dallas residents with kids in the Dallas Independent School District and some spare time Saturday might want to duck into Thomas C. Marsh Middle School, where, as you will see, board trustee Edwin Flores will be hosting a District 1 Summit. The full flier that came home with the kiddo is after the jump, but there's much on the agenda. Note: I will be attending the Yiddish session, which one presumes will occur after sundown. --Robert Wilonsky

  November 20, 2008

• At 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, 2008

• Far As DISD Trustee Flores Is Concerned, Hinojosa's the Right Man

  OK, you know the drill by now: Collect 'em all! Today, it's Edwin Flores's turn.First, a disclaimer: I've always liked Flores, who's pictured at right; he's affable and accessible. And you get the sense that he loves being a trustee and is able to shrug off the criticism that comes with the job. This is in stark contrast to Leigh Ann Ellis, who looks as if she's watching the the drowning of purring kittens when the crowd grows restless at a school board meeting. Then again, if I was a RIF'ed te

  December 17, 2008

• Last Night at W.T. White, Michael Hinojosa Reminded Everyone Who's in Charge of DISD

  Mark GrahamMichael HinojosaIt was the last question of the night: "What do you think of the mayor's concept for taking over the Dallas Independent School District?" The audience, consisting of only a few folks scattered throughout the W.T. White High School auditorium last night, let out a collective giggle. DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, who'd come to White with more than a dozen district officials to talk about the progress achieved with Dallas Achieves, let out a small laugh himself. "

  February 25, 2009

• Hinojosa's Still Out and About, Trying to Prove to Parents That He Really, Really Cares

  Last night at Thomas C. Marsh Middle School, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and school board trustee Edwin Flores took their show back on the road and hosted yet another town hall meeting, following last month's what-up-y'all at W.T. White High School. And, yet again, Hinojosa was affable and relatively open, joking about eating way too much pan dulce at breakfasts with concerned parents and explaining that that one reason he doesnn't like single-sex schools i

  April 3, 2009

• How Can DISD's Michael Hinojosa Still Love His Job—and Keep It?

  December 11, 2008

• DISD Trustees May Make Cutbacks in Democratic Process

  DISD trustees may try to cancel next year's school board election to preserve the status quo and the superintendent

  November 20, 2008

• DISD In the Hole

  Teachers get axed and parents fret as Dallas' school leaders scramble to cover a budget hole

  October 9, 2008

• Failure to Communicate

  April 5, 2007

• Tongue Twisted

  A Spanish-language requirement reopens old wounds at DISD

  November 30, 2006

• Old School

  DISD trustee Ron Price does everything you expect from a politician. These days that's a problem.

  July 13, 2006

• Light the Corners

  Where's the fun at DISD?

  June 1, 2006

• DISD 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, 2009

• 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 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, 2009

• Magnet 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, 2009

• In 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, 2009

• What Summer Vacation?

  School's out for summer, but the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees has one hellacious evening ahead of it, beginning with a 5 p.m. public hearing at 3700 Ross Avenue concerning the proposed 2009-'10 school year budget. After that's done, it's down to big business, some of which has been processed elsewhere, as in: The board will vote whether to give $2 million to Academic Success Program, and Lori Stahl's story today suggests that perhaps Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, who

  June 25, 2009

• On the SMU Campus, Hispanic High School Students are Getting a Taste of College

  Megan FeldmanDallas Mayor Tom Leppert, DISD trustee Edwin Flores and superintendent Michael Hinojosa at SMU's Hispanic Youth Symposium kick-off yesterdayA cluster of local educators and politicos -- among them Mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, SMU President Gerald Turner and DISD trustee Edwin Flores -- gathered in the stately atrium of SMU's Owen Arts Center yesterday afternoon to kick off the inaugural Dallas Hispanic Youth Symposium. Two h

  July 1, 2009

• At 3700 Ross Avenue Today, Fighting for an Old School ... and a Battle For Democracy!

  Galactic Butterfly​As 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, 2009

• Reasons No. 487 and 826 Why Parents Don't Send Their Children to Dallas Public Schools

  Kyle Renard​On Monday I moderated a District 1 school board candidates debate, and long story short, all four contenders were thoughtful, well-reasoned and dead-level; even 79-year-old long-shot Melvin Cannon's call for more vocational education was greeted with a few nods of approval. Most of the questions stuck to issues of policy and procedure; "transparency" on the board was the buzzword amongst the candidates, even the one (Edwin Flores) who voted to quash these very elections, so we'll s

  October 22, 2009

• So You're Saying the Only Person The Dallas News Could Find to Support the DISD Board's Incumbents Was an Incumbent? Yeesh.

  DISD trustee Edwin Flores​The Dallas Morning News op-ed page always bends over backward to give both sides their say. If somebody turns in an opinion piece saying babies should not be cut into chunks and eaten, they'll hunt around all week until they find someone else to write the opposing view. But if they really have to do it that way -- if there is no truth, only argument -- then at least they could choose people who come to the argument with equally clean or dirty hands. To wit, in to

  October 30, 2009

• Dallas County Elections Administrator Expects "Dismal" Turnout for Tomorrow's Elections

  ​You are aware that are there elections tomorrow, right? Probably not, unless you're in a district of the Dallas Independent School District with a seat on the board of trustees that's ripe for the takin'. (What constitutional amendments?) Hence Bruce Sherbet's prediction that no more than 3 percent of Dallas County will have cast their lots by 7 p.m. Tuesday. "And probably 40 percent of that has voted early," the county's elections administrator tells Unfair Park today, pointing to the 14,750

  November 2, 2009

• So This is What the County Elections Man Meant By a "Dismal" Election Day Turnout

  Edwin Flores​This'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: Incumbent Edwin Flores has the early lead with a little more than 50 percent of the vote -- or, a whopping 661 votes. Challenger Kyle Renard, a pediatrician, has so far brought in 492 votes, while Linus

  November 3, 2009