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
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
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
Adelfa CallejoAs we mentioned earlier, tonight's jam-packed Dallas Independent School District board of trustees meeting has this among its hot-button agenda items: the naming of an elementary school after Dallas lawyer and longtime Latina activist Adelfa Callejo. Opponents of naming a school for Callejo will offer the document you will find after the jump, along with other evidence, they say shows Callejo has a history of racist statements.You may remember Callejo made national headlines in Feb
DiSD trustee Carla RangerMissed 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
Edwin FloresThis'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
