Ron Price

It's Salary Season Again at Dallas ISD

​It's déjà vu all over again as, once more, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees is set to take up the issue of giving a raise to its chief academic officer. That's only the third time in less than two years this issue's come up. Perhaps you call last year's ruckus, when trus ... More >>

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

While DISD Takes A Time-Out Over O.M. Roberts Rebuilding Plans, Jubilee Park Residents Keep Their Protest Alive

Photos by Patrick MichelsNeighbors from Jubilee Park were protesting outside DISD headquarters again last night, while parents supporting expansion plans for O.M. Roberts Elementary held their own meeting at the school.The Dallas Independent School District's designs on land around O.M. Roberts Ele ... More >>

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: In ... More >>

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 so ... More >>

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 an ... More >>

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 distri ... More >>

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. ... More >>

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 Supr ... More >>

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 woul ... More >>

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 me ... More >>

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 ou ... More >>

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 pe ... More >>

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 yea ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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. Amo ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 Hin ... More >>

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.

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 you ... More >>

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

DISD's Shell Game

DISD In the Hole

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

Yet Again, Live From 3700 Ross

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

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

C'mon Get Happy

Even Buzz finds something to smile about in 2006

Tongue Twisted

A Spanish-language requirement reopens old wounds at DISD

Upsides and Bottom Sides

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

Darrell Jordan's Gonna Be Mayor

Old School

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

Butt for the Grace of God

School Board, Never Boring

Taking School Board Candidates to School

The Price is Wrong

Unfit to Print

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

Shhh!

What Mike Moses doesn't want anyone to know

Still Sacred

Morning News avoids the holy trinity

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

No respect

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

He said, she said

The Evans-Tyler school board race disintegrates into cheap talk of sex and powerlust

Observer editor wins award

Letters

Grow up

A little scuffle between kids turns into a nasty fight between grown-ups at DISD

City of ignorance

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

Letters

Letters

His own man

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

What price victory?

A youngster encounters tricky racial politics by challenging Kathlyn Gilliam