Subject: Ron Price

• Upsides and Bottom Sides

  September 12, 2006

• Darrell Jordan's Gonna Be Mayor

  July 17, 2006

• Butt for the Grace of God

  July 11, 2006

• School Board, Never Boring

  May 26, 2006

• Taking School Board Candidates to School

  May 4, 2006

• The Price is Wrong

  April 28, 2006

• DISD Board Declares "State of Financial Exigency," But Will Not Call for Reduction in Force -- Not Yet

  September 19, 2008

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

  September 25, 2008

• Yet Again, Live From 3700 Ross

  October 2, 2008

• DISD's Shell Game

  October 9, 2008

• At 3700 Ross Avenue Last Night, It Got Nasty. Then, It Got Even Worse.

  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

  November 21, 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

• What price victory?

  May 1, 1997

• His own man

  May 29, 1997

• Letters

  June 12, 1997

• Letters

  June 26, 1997

• Jurist imprudence

  July 17, 1997

• City of ignorance

  September 25, 1997

• Grow up

  January 8, 1998

• Letters

  January 15, 1998

• Observer editor wins award

  March 19, 1998

• He said, she said

  August 20, 1998

• Who's No. 1? Dallas City Council Candidates Pick Ballot Positions.

  Sam MertenPauline Medrano and Sheffie Kadane were two of only three (Vonciel Hill was the other) incumbents who showed up this morning.City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall announced the ballot positions for the May 9 city council elections, as Billy MacLeod, Victoria Walton, Tiffinni Young, John Jay Myers and Anita Dade gained an early leg up on the incumbents in their respective district races by nabbing the top spot. Ann Margolin was able to

  March 10, 2009

• 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. Among the procedures: "If less than nine (9) months remain on the term of a departing Trustee, the Board shall appoint a 'suitable person.'" To which Ranger responds:One might ask. What is a "suitable pe

  March 30, 2009

• 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 Trustees May Make Cutbacks in Democratic Process

  DISD trustees may try to cancel next year's school board election to preserve the status quo and the superintendent

  November 20, 2008

• DISD In the Hole

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

  October 9, 2008

• DISD's Budget Shortfall: Hinojosa's One-Man Gaffe

  September 25, 2008

• C'mon Get Happy

  Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

  January 4, 2007

• Tongue Twisted

  A Spanish-language requirement reopens old wounds at DISD

  November 30, 2006

• Ron Price Cares | So Very Dallas | The Trinity Back Flip | Bonds Away

  July 20, 2006

• Old School

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

  July 13, 2006

• Unfit to Print

  A vicious fight between John Wiley Price and a small black-owned newspaper reopens ancient wounds in southern Dallas

  March 30, 2006

• Shhh!

  What Mike Moses doesn't want anyone to know

  June 3, 2004

• Still Sacred

  Morning News avoids the holy trinity

  June 3, 2004

• 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

  May 25, 2000

• No respect

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

  June 17, 1999

• Right Now, the DISD Board is Probably Yelling At Each Other Behind Closed Doors

  DISD board trustee Ron PriceAs I noted, earlier Jim's at 3700 Ross Avenue, where, at this very moment, the board of trustees is behind closed doors, no doubt arguing over the ramifications of the Texas Attorney General's opinion that the trustees should not have extended their terms from three years to four last November. Jim filed this moments ago, just as the board disappeared -- "for hours, I fear," said Dr. Schutze, who's too scared to leave and lose his seat in the packed house.As soon as t

  May 5, 2009

• DISD Board Has Two Options: Special Election or Appointments. Not So Fast, Says Ranger.

  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

  May 6, 2009

• Hotel? No Hotel? Hard to Say, as Early Voting's Split Darned Near Right Down the Middle.

  One of the city of Dallas's official renderings of the convention center hotelMerten and Pulle are out; Schutze is about. They'll offer their reports from hotel shindigs pro and con -- and, just maybe, some council member throwdowns -- later in the night, as Dallas County Elections begins kicking out returns from the day's vote. But till then, the early-voting results are in, and, as of 7 p.m., the Vote Yes faction is out in front by hair's breadth, with 19,048 votes -- or 50.51 percent of the v

  May 9, 2009

• A 200-Vote Margin for the Hotel Is Now Closer to a 2,000-Vote Margin

  The convention center hotel, now the frontrunnerWaiting for the boys to call in, as no doubt the mood's shifted at both The Loft at Gilley's and Tucker on Ross Avenue just a bit. Because, with 427 of 534 precincts reporting, the margin's grown wider in the pro-hotel faction's favor: 39,506 (51.28 percent) who voted for the convention center hotel, as opposed to 37,539 (48.72 percent) who cast their lot against. That's a 1,967-vote margin, if my chisembop is correct.Proposition 2's all but dead:

  May 9, 2009

• At the Pro-Hotel Party, It's all Hugs and High Fives as the Counting Nears the End

  Sam MertenDCVB CEO Phillip Jones, a very happy man right about nowWith 510 of 534 precincts reporting, and the convention center hotel now looking more like a sure thing -- it's 42,433 for, 40,484 against -- Pulle reports that it's all hugs and fist bumps at The Loft at Gilley's. Says Matt, Mayor Tom Leppert was just spotted giving Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway a big ol' hug, while Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau honcho Phillip Jones "is going around giving everyone fist bumps."Matt also

  May 9, 2009

• Council Members' Web Pages Revamped as City's Web Site Gets a Slow Makeover

  The city wisely didn't bother to make a new Web page for term-limited Mitchell Rasansky, but it did find the time to cook up one for Carolyn Davis, who faces Ron Price in the June 13 runoff election.Whilst digging around for info on the city's Web site yesterday, I clicked on one of the council members' pages, which, to my surprise, looked nothing like the previous page design that was apparently implemented shortly after Al Gore invented the Internet. Of course, while the new design is long

  May 22, 2009

• Sonia Sotomayor, a Supreme Court Justice and a Dallas ISD School? Maaaaybe.

  Brian HarkinRon Price would like to name a DISD campus for the president as well.​Hadn't intended to look at the Dallas Independent School District board's meeting agendas till next week -- damn, summer break went by in a hurry -- but Tawnell Hobbs gives us an early warning: Trustee Ron Price would like to rename some schools for President Barack Obama and your newest Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor. Should come up for a vote in, oh, three weeks. Three long weeks.See for yourself on the

  August 6, 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

• Ron Price (Kinda) Explains Why He's Not Seeking Reelection; Hinojosa (Kinda) Sheds Light On Cheating Fiasco at Lang

  Ron Price​In a small meeting room at Dallas Independent School District headquarters this afternoon, Ron Price addressed reporters and a half-dozen cameras to explain why -- on the eve of the deadline to file for re-election as District 9 trustee -- he's ending his 12-year run on the school board. "I want to spend time with my family," he said. "As you know, my son's been a little sick, and I've neglected them for a long time." While he said he made the decision last fall, minutes later, when

  September 1, 2009

• At 3700 Ross Avenue Today, Fighting for an Old School ... and a Battle For Democracy!

  Galactic Butterfly​As the Friends of Unfair Park can probably guess, there were two good reasons why we suffered through nearly four hours of a Dallas Independent School District board of trustees briefing today. The first: the fate of W. H. Adamson High School, whose historic main building district officials want to demolish. The second: a certain amendment to the public participation code that cuts down the amount of time any parent, student or wingnut has to address the board. The meeting s

  September 10, 2009

• DISD's Full of Masochists, Apparently, As It Prepares to Pay $40,000 for Opinion Survey

  ​So, judging by this sneak peak at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees' briefing agenda this week, Ron Price has decided to save the district $18,000-plus: He's now recommending giving DISD Chief Academic Officer Robin Ryan a $10,000 raise. Because, as you may recall, Price and superintendent Michael Hinojosa snuck in a $28,225 raise for Ryan, much to the trustees' chagrin after they discovered it a bit too late amongst the consent-agenda items to which they gave their con

  October 5, 2009

• A Very Brief History of the DISD, Ca. 1966

  ​Whilst doing some research for something that may not lead to anything, I've been reading Walter J. E. Schiebel's Education in Dallas: Ninety-two years of History 1874-1966, published by the Dallas Independent School District. So this isn't entirely an exercise in futility, I thought I'd share some of the tome: After the jump, you'll find Chapter 1 ("The Early Years 1874-1899") and Chapter 17 ("A Forward Look"), in addition to W.T. White's very brief foreword and the August 1965 district map.

  October 28, 2009

• So This is What the County Elections Man Meant By a "Dismal" Election Day Turnout

  Edwin Flores​This'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

  November 3, 2009