Dallas ISD Is Experimenting with Offering Pre-K to 3-Year-Olds

This past spring, Dallas ISD rolled out a generally successful push for eligible families to sign their 4-year-olds up for pre-k. Early registration more than doubled, from 3,288 to 6,905, and while the increase in the number of kids who ultimately enrolled was slightly less impressive — from about 9,000…

Dallas ISD Is One of the Most Segregated School Districts in the Country

The Supreme Court’s landmark school-desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education, handed down 60 years ago this week, had little immediate impact on Dallas ISD. Schools remained officially segregated for years and de facto segregated for decades, as district officials slow-walked integration and white families fled to the suburbs…

Dallas ISD Has the Best High School in the Country. Again.

For all the roiling arguments surrounding Dallas ISD — over governance and closing achievement gaps and teacher pay and whatever else two adults might possibly disagree on — there’s one topic over which there is little debate: Dallas ISD does magnet schools right. Just in case you needed a reminder,…

Dallas ISD Home-Rule Debate Has Been Great for Mike Miles

You know the debate over public schools in Dallas has gone squirrely when retired teacher and education activist advocate Bill Betzen stands before the City Council and offers implicit approval of Mike Miles’ tenure as DISD superintendent. Betzen, speaking in advance of a council discussion on the home-rule proposal for…