Subject: Jerome Garza

• Jerome Garza Has a Lot of Friends with Schools Named After Them, Apparently

  January 3, 2007

• School Board, Never Boring

  May 26, 2006

• Bond and Gagged: Notes from Last Night's DISD Board of Trustees Meeting

  April 25, 2008

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

  August 22, 2008

• Yet Again, Live From 3700 Ross

  October 2, 2008

• Take 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, 2008

• Kathlyn Gilliam, Rev. Zan Holmes Among Those Nominated for New Schools' Names

  Kathyln Gilliam's already been the subject of this 2006 documentaryBack in June, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees voted not to name the district's Ross Ave. HQ for former school board president Kathlyn Gilliam, despite the protesters at their front door. The polarizing Gilliam, who served on the school board from 1974 till she was replaced by Ron Price in '97, actually attended the meeting during which her supporters demanded the name change; alas, said trustee Jerome Gar

  April 1, 2009

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

  December 11, 2008

• DISD In the Hole

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

  October 9, 2008

• 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

• Hope Chest

  Before DISD goes marrying Wilmer-Hutchins, let's get a look at the dowry

  July 21, 2005

• 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

• In 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, 2009

• Wherein Carla Ranger Refers to Her Fellow Dallas ISD Trustees as "Dastardly"

  DiSD trustee Carla Ranger​Missed 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, 2009