Miguel Solis, On Way Out from School District, Looks Back Not in Anger

Last week, a day before candidate filing opened for the upcoming school board election, East Dallas/Love Field Dallas board member Miguel Solis announced he will not seek reelection. His public statement maintained a certain aura of mystery. He didn’t announce new plans. It was sort of like, “And now my…

National Civil Rights Group Pushes Back in UT Affirmative Action Lawsuit

A national civil rights group is asking a Texas court to rule against an anti-affirmative action organization that’s seeking to have the University of Texas’ admissions policy declared unlawful. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a Washington-based nonprofit, filed a petition in intervention last week in Students for…

Texas Law Professors Sign Letter Calling for Trump’s Impeachment

A group of 16 law professors from Texas universities were among hundreds of legal scholars who signed an open letter stating President Donald Trump has “engaged in impeachable conduct.” The letter, which was addressed to Congress, was posted Friday on Medium. In the letter, the legal experts say they take…

Two Books Offer Light on This Local Trouble We Call School Reform

In a casual conversation about suburban public schools and ethnic diversity recently, I noticed that the person with whom I was chatting did not believe the presence of Asian American students in a school system should be counted toward diversity. In fact, she sort of felt it worked the other…

What Government Inflicted on the City, Why Can’t It Redress?

In a neighborhood with problems, the last thing anybody needed was a big, bad abandoned building. Something like that is a scary billboard warning people away. All the more appalling for the owner of it to have been the public school system, whose No. 1 priority ought to have been…

Dallas Schools Doing OK, No 10 Plagues of Egypt, Trustee Claims

We must knock wood and throw salt over our shoulders. Don’t say anything to mess it up. But the Dallas public school system, already an unheralded center of innovation, may also be emerging as an unheralded beacon of stability. And the unheralded part — no New York Times stories, no 60 Minutes…

UNT Attorney Resigns After Using N-Word During Campus Panel Discussion

University of North Texas officials are condemning a university system attorney’s use of a racial slur during a campus forum on First Amendment protections Thursday evening. Caitlin Sewell, assistant general council for the UNT System, used the word as an example of protected speech during a panel discussion titled “When…

Students from Tornado-Damaged Schools Return to Class

At a little after 9 a.m. Wednesday, Kristen Dale was walking the halls of Thomas Edison Middle Learning Center in West Dallas, stopping groups of kids as they passed. Where are you headed? Do you know where you’re going? she asked. Some of them, being teenagers, tried to blow her…

Obscured by Tornado News, an Important Story at Dallas Public Schools

Something important in local education has happened over the last few days, a story that has already slipped beneath the wave of tornado news. It is worth noting as both a harbinger of progress and a very depressing reminder why progress comes hard. Dallas school Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has announced…

After Tornado, Some Dallas Students Move to New Schools

Most, if not all, of the students at Dallas ISD schools that were shut down after Sunday’s tornadoes can expect to be back in school this week. But exactly where they’ll be in school is another matter. School officials canceled classes Monday at 20 campuses where the storm had knocked…

Esports May Be Coming to Dallas Schools

Teams from schools across Collin and Dallas counties met up last weekend to play in front of a screaming crowd at a stadium in the shadow of Globe Life Park in Arlington. They were playing Nintendo. Mixed into the crowd were parents, classmates, coaches and district administrators. This tournament, they…

Forget Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Listen to Wallace Hall.

In the end, everything about Hollywood is basically absurd, so the same is true for the prosecution of two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, on charges they paid bribes to get their kids into college. But a story based right here in Dallas reminds us that stupid Hollywood tricks…