Back in June, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees voted not to name the district’s Ross Ave. HQ for former school board president Kathlyn Gilliam, despite the protesters at their front door. The polarizing Gilliam, who served on the school board from 1974 till she was replaced by…
Dallas 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. Among the procedures: “If less than nine (9)…
Several neighbors and friends of the show attended yesterday’s public hearing of the Texas State Board of Education down in Austin in advance of today’s evolution vs. creationism vote — which ended in a 7-7 draw, meaning the board will not add, at the moment, language that requires public schools…
I was glancing at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ meeting agenda for Thursday when I espied this intriguing item: Acceptance of Donation from United Way of Metropolitan Dallas in the Amount of $1,005,000 to Support Destination: Graduation. Seems awfully generous, which is why I called United Way…
A Friend of Unfair Park who teaches in the Dallas Independent School District directs our attention to school board trustee Carla Ranger’s blog, because we missed last night’s post concerning a proposal to trim teachers’ minimum contracts from two years to one. (The max, incidentally, appears to be five.) Writes…
Don McLeroy, a Republican dentist from Bryan, is the chair of the Texas State Board of Education. He’s also a book critic: Over the weekend, an indie book publisher posted his recommendation of Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.’s new book Sowing Atheism: The National Academy Of Sciences’ Sinister Scheme To Teach…
Till late last week, the formerly prolific Carla Ranger hadn’t posted to her blog for most of 2009. But the Dallas Independent School District board member has returned, and today she points our attention to state Rep. Yvonne Davis’s H.B. 3532 introduced late last week, which calls for “the abolition…
Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum, who has a daughter in kindergarten in the Dallas Independent School District, has a big ol’ problem with, at the very least, this part of President Barack Obama’s speech on education delivered earlier this week:That’s why I’m calling for us not only to expand effective…
Till Mayor Tom Leppert decides to talk for himself about his thinking about maybe one day possibly taking over the Dallas Independent School District we’ll see not sure for sure who knows, it’s all one big guessing game. Which doesn’t stop the Dallas mayor’s name from appearing in this morning’s…
John Wiley Price said recently he’d like the Dallas Independent School District to rename North Dallas High School in honor of Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, among the school’s most famous grads. And if that doesn’t happen, well, Price has a number of other facilities from which to choose: The DISD…
It was the last question of the night: “What do you think of the mayor’s concept for taking over the Dallas Independent School District?” The audience, consisting of only a few folks scattered throughout the W.T. White High School auditorium last night, let out a collective giggle. DISD Superintendent Michael…
By now, perhaps, you’ve read that some $104,070,000 of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package will wind up in the pockets of the Dallas Independent School District. (If your kids aren’t in the DISD, you can see how your district fared in the sweepstakes by checking out this site; Plano,…
Dallas school board trustee Ron Price made it official at 3:44 p.m. on January 30, when he turned into the City Secretary’s Office paperwork announcing that he’s running for Carolyn Davis’s District 7 seat on the Dallas City Council. (Ex-City Manager Richard Knight Jr., now in the waste disposal business,…
On this (overhyped?) National Letter of Intent Signing Day, high schoolers all over the country chose which school they’d be suiting up for next. For some, it was as simple as faxing in a signed letter (a mighty challenge in its own right), but for the Dallas Independent School District’s…
A Friend of Unfair Park and fellow Dallas Independent School District parent directed my attention to the Web site of DISD trustee Lew Blackburn, which isn’t nearly as provocative as Carla Ranger’s — though, of late, she’s been sadly absent from the Internets save for mention of the 10th Anniversary…
Yesterday was the deadline for “interested parties” to send to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas briefs concerning the Dallas Independent School District board of trustee’s vote to extend their term limits from three to four years. Carla Ranger, of course, is the only trustee against the extension,…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends a heads-up for those with an hour to kill this morning: Dallas Independent Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will sit for a chitchat beginning at 9 a.m. with Fernando Romano of Dallas iMedia Network. If you’ve got any questions for the super, you can send ’em…
Sure University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy had to settle for the Heisman Trophy runner-up. Sure his Longhorns – despite last night’s thrilling Fiesta Bowl victory – are getting screwed out of a possible National Championship. And sure, as one of my alcohol-soaked relatives put it over the holidays, “Something…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger End of January’s shaping up to be busy, busy, busy for the Dallas Independent School District. Says school board trustee Carla Ranger on her blog this a.m., Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has set a January 19 deadline for the DISD, the Texas Education…
A glance at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ meeting agenda for this evening reveals a few items of interest. Among them: The Stonewall Jackson PTA is trying to revive its beloved Outdoor Science Lab & Garden nearly done in during the district’s RIF in October. Which is…
Earlier today our downstairs neighbors at Big Thought sent the image above, which you’ve no doubt seen if you’ve window-shopped at NorthPark Center during this most wonderful (enh) time of the year. It’s the storefront at Barney’s New York, where the theme’s “Have a Hippie Holiday,” which, I’ll assume, involves…
OK, you know the drill by now: Collect ’em all! Today, it’s Edwin Flores’s turn.First, a disclaimer: I’ve always liked Flores, who’s pictured at right; he’s affable and accessible. And you get the sense that he loves being a trustee and is able to shrug off the criticism that comes…
