Subject: Tawnell Hobbs

• Ya Know, We Want to Let This Celso Martinez Thing Go, If Only He'd Stop Lying

  February 8, 2007

• Give Gwinn Extra Credit on DISD Credit Card Scandal

  July 3, 2006

• DISD Board of Trustees No Doubt Thrilled About Tomorrow's Meeting

  July 23, 2008

• Party with DISD's Teachers from Abroad

  November 20, 2008

• Failure to Communicate

  April 5, 2007

• Carla Ranger Believes Targeting of DISD Learning Centers is "Racial Politics"

  DISD trustee Carla RangerYesterday, Tawnell Hobbs summarized the debate over the fate of the Dallas Independent School District's learning centers, created by court order in the 1980s to "return disadvantaged, inner-city, minority students to their neighborhood schools and provide quality educational programs with supplementary funds," as the district's Web site puts it. District officials were told last week that funding at the centers will have to be cut further to reduce

  April 16, 2009

• Shhh!

  What Mike Moses doesn't want anyone to know

  June 3, 2004

• 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

• Ranger Says DISD Board Was (Is?) Trying "To Cancel the May 2009 Board Officer Elections"

  DISD board trustee Carla RangerOn Monday, Tawnell Hobbs posted a poll in which she asked readers of The News's Dallas ISD Blog, "Who should be the next DISD board prez?" Perhaps not surprisingly, the outspoken Carla Ranger -- who led the charge to overturn the board's decision not to hold 2009 elections, and who fought to keep the district from cutting funding from magnets and learning centers -- is leading by a mile with 78 percent of the 348 votes cast. But Ranger writes on her blog this morni

  May 20, 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

• DISD Off: Ranger Attacks Fellow Trustees' "Destructive and Self-Serving Agenda"

  DISD trustee Carla Ranger​In case you missed it, on Tuesday Tawnell Hobbs published Dallas Independent School District trustee Jack Lowe's list of things he's looking for in an "ideal" trustee. Among his bullet points: "Supports our vision of being the best urban school district in the country." Fantastic. "Makes courageous decisions for the good of the whole district even when it is politically risky." Right on. "Focuses on students and student achievement, not jobs and contracts." Hmmm, real

  October 16, 2009