Subject: Lew Blackburn

• No Love Here

  March 13, 2007

• At DISD HQ, It Begins

  September 19, 2008

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

  September 25, 2008

• Yet Again, Live From 3700 Ross

  October 2, 2008

• D? Well, Maybe D-.

  Look, let me take one specific portion of the D special issue about the Dallas Independent School District that came out this week and use it to explain why I don’t think much of this stuff is worth reading. This was a sidebar under the byline of our former colleague, Mark Stuertz, who was famous around here for being a meticulous investigative reporter (and erudite food critic). I mean, he is robot metal-detector, Geiger counter kind of fact-digger. Stuertz just doesn’t miss stuff. Bu

  November 13, 2008

• Carla Ranger Also Has No Confidence in Fellow DISD Trustee Ron Price

  DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger The day before Halloween, three Dallas Independent School District board members -- Ron Price, Lew Blackburn and Carla Ranger -- told board president Jack Lowe, in writing, that they were calling for a "no-confidence vote" against superintendent Michael Hinojosa. Lowe repeatedly ignored the request, despite Ranger's insistence during several board meetings last month. As well documented here, she's fed up with her fellow trustees and the superintendent,

  December 12, 2008

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

  December 11, 2008

• DISD: Hitting Bottom, Then Reaching for a Shovel to Dig Deeper

  Explanations be damned. There is only one justifiable response to the worst fiscal disaster in DISD history.

  November 27, 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

• Cops on Campus

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

  May 22, 2003

• DISD's Attempt to Gut Magnets, Learning Centers Gets Uglier With Every Misstep

  Patrick MichelsThe scene outside 3700 Ross Avenue last nightLast night's decision by the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees to delay voting on budget cuts for the district's enhanced schools was more than just a stall. The debate leading up to that decision shed a little more light on the question most people watching all this have been asking for the last several weeks:What the hell?Why in the world would the Dallas Independent School District want to screw up its magnet sc

  May 15, 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