Last week, almost 50 local high school and college students piled into a bus and headed out of town. This was no spring break beach vacation or field trip, though: The goals were purely political. The teenagers went to Austin to oppose proposals to repeal a law that allows qualified…
The following comes from a July 31, 2006, story in The Dallas Morning News, shortly after the paper published a series of stories revealing that some Dallas Independent School District employees had used district-issued credit cards to run up more than $6 million in purchases that either violated district policies…
Steve Snyder, the former editor of Lancaster Today till he was “downsized” out of that gig earlier this year, sends word that he’s got plenty to offer at his Web site concerning the state of the Lancaster Independent School District and, more to the point, its superintendent, Larry Lewis. And,…
Lancaster ISD Larry Lewis insists his district’s audit is more than two months late for legit reasons. When Dallas’ Only Daily recently mentioned the upcoming $142-million school-bond package vote in Lancaster, it said only that it will “alleviate overcrowding and address future growth.” Two days later, The Dallas Morning News…
From left, Michelle Berger, Matthew Dempsky and Jack Lindamood were among the competitors at a computer-programming competition in Tokyo. Us, we can’t even get our computers to adjust for Daylight Savings Time. This probably doesn’t make for a great spectator sport. Nonetheless, a team of three computer-science students from UT-Dallas…
If you’re interested in what life’s like at James Madison High School, you need go no further than YouTube: Today, whilst doing our usual browsing for items of local interest, we stumbled across the work of one “bryanrotge,” who clearly digs bringing a video camera to school in order to…
Lew Blackburn, at right, doesn’t seem to quite know the meaning of the word “impressive.” If you want to know why the Dallas Independent School District seems to have a spending scandal more often than the Dallas Mavericks lose a game, well, maybe part of the answer lies with trustees…
Last night, while I was down in Waco, a Friend of Unfair Park called my cell to ask if I was, at that very moment, listening to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket). Well, usually, around 6:09 p.m., I am, but, ya know, not always. “No,” says I, “why?” My Friend tells…
Celso Martinez told Sarah Dodd he has the God-given right to live wherever he wanted. Yeah, tell it to the boss, Celso. Celso Martinez was kind enough to call and give me the news personally. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has denied the DISD spokesperson and associate superintendent’s waiver request to continue…
Last week we outed Celso Martinez. Now, as evidenced by Channel 11’s report and a DMN piece, he’s become quite the media sensation — like Carrot Top. Really, we’d be done with Celso Martinez by now were it not for his recurring issues with the truth. On Tuesday, four days…
This may seem like we’re being petty here, but bear with us: Celso Martinez, the DISD flak who said I may have broken the law when I toured a public school with a parent, is himself in violation of school policy. Martinez, hired by the DISD in June, lives in…
Uh, note to DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa: You’d best tell your spokesperson the definition of “legal” before this gets ugly. Oh, wait. Too late. Our bad. Breaking news: The Dallas Independent School District is investigating whether a crime was committed at Preston Hollow Elementary School in the wake of a…
Teresa Parker: the (former?) principal at Preston Hollow Elementary You remember Teresa Parker, right? She was the principal at Preston Hollow Elementary School — the one U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay said in his November 16 ruling had “unlawfully segregated [students] at Preston Hollow based on race and national origin”…
The Texas Association of School Boards and the Texas Association of School Administrators released a joint study yesterday revealing how much teachers are making across the state — and for the first time, Region XI (which would be Fort Worth) has the heighest average salary, at least for the 2006-’07…
Trustees gone wild! Actually, the video of DISD Trustee Jerome Garza isn’t all that exciting. But it sure is interesting. Exactly one month ago, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece about how the DISD finally decided how to divvy up the School District Formerly Known as Wilmer-Hutchins. Contained within…
