Jose Plata

Former District 3 Councilman Ed Oakley Really Doesn't Want Dave Neumann Back at City Hall

Photo by Sam Merten​Ed Oakley, who once sat in the District 3 seat at the Dallas City Hall horseshoe, is already listed among Scott Griggs's supporters, alongside, of course, Dallas County Commissioner Elba Garcia, former Dallas ISD school board trustee Jose Plata, former Dallas City Manager Jan H ... More >>

Fixing the Schools, One Screening at a Time, with CDM's Waiting for Superman Soiree

​As the education policy call-to-arms doc Waiting for Superman has been released across the country, educators and would-be reformers everywhere have been doing the thing you do when a Davis Guggenheim documentary (or a Mel Gibson film in the original Aramaic) comes out: special screenings and pos ... More >>

Sheriff Who?

Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez was a revolutionary candidate--as a leader, not so much

Letters

Ganging Up, Parrott Uncaged

Letters

Falun Dafa's Dark Side, Swimming with Jellyfish, Inwood vs. Itself

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?

A Miracle Waiting to Happen

With a little luck and a wise school superintendent, Dallas could do what Houston did

Buzz

Inquiring minds; Leave 'em snarling

Buzz

Why wait?; Real world

Letters

No, you take him; Scenic Huntsville; Hell's grannies; Not us; Fair market; Blame it on Bossa Nova

Buzz

Now you don't see it...Rumor patrol; Signing off; Flicked up; Study hall; Wyoming, we think

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

Gutless coup

Everybody's talking about a takeover at DISD, but nobody wants to do anything about it

Now you see him

Don Venable rises from his sickbed to save the day -- or something -- at DISD

Look back in confusion

Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

Buzz

Rambo Justice

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

Letters

Bad boys

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

One Fine Mess

Elected by no one, John Scovell and a clique of Dallas business leaders brought you DISD's most infamous cast of characters: Yvonne Gonzalez, Dan Peavy, Bill Keever, and Sandy Kress. Thanks a lot.

School's out

Walt Whitman Community School in Oak Lawn is America's first private high school for gay and lesbian students. Despite some grim personal stories, the kids are all right.

City of ignorance

Don't expect racial tensions to cool in DISD as long as emotion trumps the truth

Cat Eyes' last meow

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

His own man

Sore losers say the white establishment bought and sold Ron Price. Don't believe it.

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.

"It's our turn to be heard"

With Hispanics the majority among Dallas schoolchildren and a Latino superintendent in their corner, Jesse Diaz and other activists say

Mommie dearest

Why I'm trading my typewriter for diapers and drool cloths

Letters

School for Scandal

Principal Mike Stiles was turning Dallas' troubled Sunset High around - until a critical misjudgement threw him into a political snakepit