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Tennell Atkins, Dwaine Caraway Demand Four African-American Seats Stay On City Council

Photo by Anna MerlanCaraway and Atkins at this morning's press conference​Did you wake up this morning wondering what all the arguing's going to be about at Saturday's redistricting forum with Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council members? Wonder no longer! At a City Hall press conference just ... More >>

So Much For Transparency: Garcia Held Private Meetings Before Redistricting Map Hit Council

Domingo Garcia, a week before he called his closed-door meetings with the Redistricting Commission​This morning, the city council got its first formal look at the just-completed redistricting map proposal, Plan 16d, presented by redistricting chair Ruth Morgan and vice chair Billy Ratcliff. And du ... More >>

Meet the Man Who Will (Probably) Draw the New Dallas City Council District Boundaries

Image via Amarillo.com"Gerrymandering damages communities," says Bill Betzen.​We know you're sick of hearing about this, but bear with us: Dallas is, like, thisclose to getting some shiny, newly redrawn, possibly less-gerrymandered city council districts. The Redistricting Commission sat through a ... More >>

Dwaine Caraway Speaks at Longest Redistricting Commission Meeting Ever & Other Highlights

The end is near ... sort of. The city's Redistricting Commission is inching towards putting together a city map it can forward on to the city council, and everyone -- the public and commissioners alike -- is trying to get in a parting shot before then. Last night's meeting was a marathon ... More >>

Carla Ranger Doesn't Trust the DISD Trustees to Fill a Vacant Seat in "the Public Interest"

DISD trustee Carla RangerDallas Independent School District school board trustee Carla Ranger returned from the superintendent's weekend "retreat" to post the rules concerning how the board fills a trustee's seat (i.e., special election or appointment) should he or she leave before a term is up. Amo ... More >>

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

Old School

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

Sinner or Saint

Plus: Don't Call Us and Family Reunion

It Hits the Fan

Plus: Doesn’tsuck.com; What’s in a Name

Cops on Campus

Forget detention. DISD means business with its new beefed-up police force—bad business, say some employees.

Run, Betty, Run

Culbreath-Lister vying for spot on school board

Letters

Ganging Up, Parrott Uncaged

Divided She Stands

Is controversial DISD trustee Lois Parrott a champion of the little guy, or the bitter core of the board's infamous civil wars?

Separate and Unequal

In a school district that still sees the city in terms of black and white, Hispanics say their children are robbed of a fair share

For God and Country

For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda

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SEEDless in DISD

Brown-out

The problems at Silberstein Elementary--too few bilingual teachers, a PTA divided, tensions between black administrators and Hispanic parents--are a microcosm of the issues DISD faces districtwide

Planting SEEDs of hope

An innovative math program recalculates which students will succeed and which will fail at DISD

No class

New York-based Edison Schools flunked out with trying to privatize Sherman's public schools. Why should things be any different in Dallas?

The legal commode

Dallas school board follows ancient legal principle of

nolo brainero

A clockwork Buzz

1999, the year Bill Rojas brought panic and paranoia to DISD. But was there any other good news? Buzz takes a look back.

Da thug

Rojas proves he'll slap around board members to get what he wants -- an Edison deal

No respect

DISD trustee Se-Gwen Tyler explains why she cast her controversial vote for an Anglo board president

Pig in a poke

The DISD board doesn't do its homework before offering San Franciscan Bill Rojas the top job

The "Doctor" Is In

School board candidate Richard Evans has a checkered past, a mail-order degree, and a confrontational manner. But many city leaders think he's the best man for the job.

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Letters

Rambo Justice

Are bad-boy lawyers Bill Brewer and John Bickel building a bridge to Dallas' minority communities, or trying to sell them one?

Bored to cheers

DISD board president Hollis Brashear is not an exciting guy. That's why I like him.

Cancel that

An about-face over release of the Peavy Tapes puts DISD trustees opposite Sandy Kress

Letters

The Right Honorable Don Venable

As the new trustee takes his seat on the school board, he comes out slashing

Bad boys

The voters could care less. But someone's gotta win the runoff for the last lowly DISD board seat

Cat Eyes' last meow

Yvonne Gonzalez calls it quits after her darkest hour in that tear-jerkin', mind-bendin' DISD

See Yvonne. See Yvonne run. See Yvonne run from the truth.

She's the toughest superintendent DISD has ever had. But Yvonne Gonzalez's administration has already developed a dangerous tendency for bulldozing the facts.

Impulse buying

A proposal to turn a church into classrooms raises a choir of critics

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Follow the Money

Don't let accusations of overtime fraud by low-level employees distract you. The real money disappears from the Dallas Independent School District through sleazy contracts awarded by top administrators.

Chaos theory

A politically dysfunctional DISD board heads into a May election that's looking so scary, few voters or contributors want to go near it

Bully power

Learning that rabble rules at Dallas school board meetings

'It's all a matter of power.'

When Sandy Kress was school board president, he and Dan Peavy held private discussions on how to limit the influence of black school board members. Their conversations were captured on the Peavy Tapes, which Kress has fought hard to keep secret. Now, U.S.

Leave it to Keever

DISD's new leader has ambition and ideas--if anybody'd let him finish a meeting

The Truth About Townview (Part I)

How John Wiley Price and Chad Woolery have made students pawns in Dallas' racial politics

Kress and the merry morons

Dallas' political rabble takes after minority students' best friend