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News
October 30, 2014
The Showdown at Dade
What happens when you mix a reforming (and hard-headed) superintendent, a pissed-off trustee and a South Dallas middle school on the brink? Chaos.
Blogs
October 17, 2014
Miles/Nutall Thing Is About Turf and Who Runs DISD, Her or Him.
Talk about mixed feelings this morning. On the one hand thanks to a youthful experience I would rather not recount here in colorful detail, I know exactly how Dallas school board member Bernadette Nutall feels about getting rousted by the cops earlier this week in a Dallas school building. My heart ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2014
Seize the Moment, Dallas Schools, and Decide for Good What Trustees Can and Cannot Do
Big teachable moment right now in the Dallas school system -- huge! -- and the school board and superintendent should rush to take advantage of it. I'm talking about the deal I reported here yesterday in which the superintendent called school district cops to physically evict a school board member ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2014
DISD's Bernadette Nutall Says "Let's Be Clear" on Home Rule. She Should Go First.
Last week somebody called me and asked me to go back and listen to Krys Boyd's April 29 Think program on KERA radio, in which Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas school trustee Bernadette Nutall debated "home rule," a proposal that could radically change the way we govern Dallas public schools. ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2014
Dallas ISD Trustees Are Skeptical of Shadowy Home-Rule District Push
There are plenty of very good reasons to blow up Dallas ISD's board of trustees. Its meetings are long, petty, and often unproductive. In a district that's more than two-thirds Hispanic, just one of its nine members is the same. Choosing trustees by geographic district discourages district-wide thi ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2013
Mike Miles Gets 90 Days to Grow Up, Dallas Gets 25 Years
In the wee hours of today, maybe a dozen of us media people, half a dozen teachers union officials and another half dozen bitter-enders sat waiting in a semi-darkened auditorium at school headquarters while the school board was in "executive session" -- a closed-door meeting in another part of the b ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2013
If DISD Trustees Sack Mike Miles This Week, It Will Not Be About the Coggins Report
More than just today, maybe every day this week we need to talk here about the Dallas school superintendent and school reform, mainly because this may all be over by the end of the week. The school board will meet later this week, and the anti-reform wing of the board probably will move to fire Supe ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2013
Charges Against DISD's Mike Miles: More Bullying Bullshit?
Which event are we talking about here? Individual Dallas school board members -- job-defenders who are sworn enemies of the ongoing school reform program -- violate normal process to release an internal school district report highly critical of Dallas Superintendent Mike Miles. Before folks have tim ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2013
Dallas Has a Lesson to Learn About Segregation from Scary Detroit
Stories about my old hometown, Detroit, are no longer merely depressing. The word, depressing, just doesn't get it. Detroit is beginning to be fascinating. Its plight is almost mesmerizing, in a science-fiction post-apocalyptic kind of way. Terrible awful unbelievable story in The New York Times to ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2013
Bernadette Nutall: Miles "Experiment[ing] With Our Children" By Pouring Resources into South Dallas Schools
Dallas ISD's Board of Trustees argued into the early morning hours before approving a $1.2 billion budget for the coming year. It includes a two-percent raise for almost all employees, as well as funding for Superintendent Mike Miles' year-old principal training academy, which some trustees wanted t ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2013
Bernadette Nutall and Other Profiteers of Inferiority Must Go
Heed what just happened in the battle over next year's school budget for Dallas. Black elected leaders on the school board voted for segregation and failure. It's time for everybody -- I mean everybody -- to rethink the role of black elected leadership in this city. Of course the traditionally seg ... More >>
News
May 23, 2013
Mike Miles versus The World
In Dallas ISD, a fight over principals, race and a slice of the pie.
Blogs
May 10, 2013
Dallas ISD Ends Shirt-Tucking Requirement Over Concerns That it Damages Fat Kids
Dallas ISD trustees still haven't decided what to do about the roster of principals whose jobs could be on the chopping block. The matter has now been delayed twice, thus sparing trustees from making an extremely controversial decision until after this weekend's election. At their meeting Thursday, ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2013
Despite Sharp Divisions, Dallas ISD Trustees Vote to Oppose Effort to Ease Testing Standards
Last night, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees approved a resolution "opposing legislative efforts to diminish graduation standards and academic rigor." Basically, they don't like HB 5, the Texas House of Representatives-approved bill that would reduce the number of tests students take to graduate, an ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
DISD Principals and Trustees Have Another Month to Prepare for Battle with Mike Miles
Up to 50 Dallas ISD schools could have a changing of the guard next year, as principals announce their resignation or retirement. Superintendent Mike Miles has placed heavy emphasis on principal reform, including replacing those who underperform. But around a dozen principals are not going quietly ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2013
Bernadette Nutall Raises the Stakes in the War Over Protecting Favored DISD Principals
On March 22, I penned a story for this page in which I portrayed school district trustee Bernadette Nutall as appearing to be "neutral" on school reform. Her apparent neutrality made her a very singular exception to the rule at a heated community meeting the night before at Madison High School, wh ... More >>
News
February 28, 2013
Mike Miles vs. Patronage: DISD's Impending Principal Purge
Are Dallas ISD trustees already preparing to protect the principals Mike Miles wants to fire?
News
June 14, 2012
The North Dallas Plot to Take Over DISD
Rich, white, North Dallas businessmen are plotting to take over Dallas' schools. Maybe this time it'll work.
Blogs
May 25, 2012
Sadness, Loss as Bonham Elementary School Prepares for Consolidation
Today is the last Friday of the school year for Dallas ISD schools. For 11 schools in the city slated for consolidation after a school board vote, like the 89-year-old James B. Bonham Elementary, this Friday holds even more significance. Next week, after the students leave, the teachers will pack al ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2012
Goodbye for Now, Young Damarcus Offord
The Dallas Independent School District elections were held last weekend, and as we maybe should have known all along, Elizabeth Jones, Dan Micciche and Bernadette Nutall -- the candidates with tens of thousands of PAC dollars and personal endorsements from the Citizen -- blew out their competition. ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2012
In Dallas Independent School District, It's the Best School Board Money Can (and Did) Buy
Oh. Right. That. After all the candidate forums and the radio debates and the mayor-izen endorsements, it turned out that the roughly 117 people who care about the politics of Dallas Independent School District were just extras in the occasional stage play put on by the North Dallas elite, who thi ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
This Bernadette Nutall and Damarcus Offord Race for DISD Just Keeps Getting Better
In two days, DISD school board trustee elections will be upon us, and we of Unfair Park are way more stoked than we have any right to be. Obviously, we're particularly excited about the District 9 race between the incumbent Bernadette Nutall and her 20-year-old challenger, Damarcus Offord. You can ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Damarcus Offord and Bernadette Nutall Took the Debate to the Radio Yesterday
We tuned in to the Dallas ISD's District 9 school board trustee forum on KHVN 970 yesterday between incumbent Bernadette Nutall and her challenger, 20-year-old Damarcus Offord. Host Robert Ashley and his station, it turns out, moderated the best debate thus far. The two clearly don't like each oth ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
Mike Rawlings Endorses DISD Candidates, Continues His Wade into District Politics
Much has been made of Mayor Mike Rawlings' foray into Dallas Independent School District politics in recent months. Depending on who's talking, his involvement is either the leadership and commitment this city needs to save its schools; another sign of the business community's hostile takeover of th ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Morning News vs. Damarcus Offord: "Racist" Paper Says He "Doesn't Know What a GPA Is"
I got a call from Damarcus Offord yesterday. The 20-year-old school-board candidate sounded excited, energized. "Did you read the email I sent?" he asked. "Did you see the poll?" I did not, so then I did. "Damarcus Offord is a candidate running in the May 12 election for DISD School Board Truste ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2012
By the Numbers: Few Black Students Leave DISD College-Ready
Only three out of every 100 black students in Dallas Independent School District graduate ready for college. Among black students entering DISD high schools as freshmen, 28 percent don't graduate at all. Those are some of the findings in a report DISD District 9 trustee Bernadette Nutall passed on ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
In Fair Park Last Night, it was Damarcus Offord vs. Bernadette Nutall for DISD's Future
In a fiery town hall debate last night, held in Fair Park's African-American Museum, Dallas ISD trustee Bernadette Nutall and 20-year-old upstart Damarcus Offord both tried their hardest to prove, for better or for worse, that they were nothing like their competitor. The majority of the 100 or so p ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Damarcus Offord, the 20-Year-Old DISD Trustee Candidate, Just Lit Up Mayor Mike
Like him or not, I'm sure we can all agree: Damarcus Offord, the 20-year-old Lincoln High grad who's challenging Bernadette Nutall for her southern Dallas seat on the Dallas ISD school board, is making the typical snoozefest that are school board politics a lot more fun. Last week, Greg showed the ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
What Makes a Super Superintendent, Far as the DISD Trustees Are Concerned? Here You Go.
At the beginning of the Dallas ISD trustees' long day's journey into night, I dialed up the back-and-forth over the superintendent search, as the board at long last debated what makes a super super. That video's archived here. And it was intriguing too, a peek into the thought processes of the bo ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
PAC EducateDallas Endorses Incumbents For Dallas ISD School Board, Give Each 10 Grand
Just got off the phone with tax attorney Mark Melton, who, as you'll recall, is co-chairing EducateDallas, that political action committee with ties to the Dallas Regional Chamber. I had questions following receipt of a release this afternoon that says the PAC is endorsing two candidates for the ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Dallas ISD Trustees Blackburn, Nutall Have Had It With Dallas NAACP Prez's "Slander and Libel"
Via.Juanita WallaceAh, so this is why Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn and trustee Bernadette Nutall want to clamp down on public speakers at school board meetings -- comments made by Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace at the October 20 board meeting. Specifica ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2011
"If You Don't Respect the Public, Why Are You in Public Service?" One in Carla Ranger's Series.
Billboard designed by Thomas WilsonThough there are a few exceptions to the rule, for the most part any one Dallas City Council member may pull an item from the council's agenda and have it deferred till the next voting agenda meeting. Not so with the Dallas Independent School District, not ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2011
Some Thin-Skinned DISD Trustees Want Public to Stop Picking on Them During Board Meetings
Leslie's up shortly with a recap of yesterday discussion about expanding the Dallas Independent School District's calendar, which got further with the trustees than some of the Friends of Unfair Park predicted earlier. I sat through the rest of the meeting to see how the board would handle that $ ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2011
Surprisingly, DISD Trustees Aren't Ruling Out Keeping (Some) Students in School Till July 26
"If you're bad, you will stay in school longer!!!" Well, sure, maybe.At yesterday's Dallas ISD board meeting, trustee Mike Morath had a fairly novel idea regarding the school calendar. Long story short, he said: Let's consider testing the merits of a radical school calendar change that would ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2011
Decision to Pause '08 Bond-Funded Redos At Some DISD Schools Was Anything But Quiet
Billy Earl Dade Middle School is one of the schools where construction has been halted.Front page of the morning's paper has a pay-walled story about the Dallas Independent School District's decision to "quietly" halt construction on a handful of schools due to receive '08-bond money redos -- qui ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
"Foolishness in the Extreme": Watch the Dallas ISD School Board Debate the Budget
If you care at all about the fate of the Dallas Independent School District, carve out an hour over the weekend. Then, jump to the other side of this item, where I've posted the entirety of the school board budget discussion to which I referred yesterday (down below too). Now, fair warning: It's ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
As DISD Struggles to Make Budget Cuts This Year, Board Warned It's Only Gonna Get Worse
The Dallas Independent School District board was just told it's "still in limbo" when it comes to the exact dollar figure it can expect in cuts from the state Legislature, though something could land on Gov. Rick Perry's desk as early as late next week. Right now, Senate Bill 1 would take $63 mil ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2011
DISD Projects $120 Mil Shortfall, Which Would Mean 1,091 Layoffs and No Full-Day Pre-K
It's been a long, contentious meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, and we just got to the latest budget update. First, Carla Ranger wanted to know why Bernadette Nutall, with Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's OK, halted construction at a handful of South Dallas sch ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2010
The "Imbalance of Power": Dallas ISD Trustees Will Finally Vote Tonight on New Bullying Policy
When we first looked at the Dallas Independent School District's proposed anti-bullying policy one month ago, it was a brief two-page document intended, as trustee Edwin Flores said at the time, to be more "comprehensive" than the existing student code of conduct. But for some, the so-called "Fre ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2010
Dallas ISD Trustees Take A Look At Ways to Bring More Charter Schools Into the District
A handful of Dallas Independent School District gatheredn the old board room at 3700 Ross this morning to poke at a question with big implications: How can the district get the most of its new partnerships charter schools, possibly even next school year? Born out of April's West Dallas "School Zo ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
Dallas ISD Trustee Flores on Why District Needs a New "Comprehensive" Policy on Bullying
While we're on the subject, perhaps some required reading?On Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees will take a closer look at a proposed policy: "Freedom from Bullying." District officials say this morning it was an idea proposed, separately, by trustees Edwin Flore ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2010
DISD Spares Vickery Greenhouse in Jubilee Park. But Homeowners' Fates Still Uncertain.
Daniel RodriguePat BerryPat Berry, owner of Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse in Jubilee Park, got the call yesterday. On the other end was Dallas Independent School District trustee Bernadette Nutall, who told him the news he'd been hoping to hear for months: The district has shelved its plans to con ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
It Took a While, But Dallas ISD Will Introduce Its Over-Age High School Come Fall
Five weeks ago the fate of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's proposed over-age high school was in question, as trustee Bernadette Nutall took the $2-mil proposal from the fast track to the benches for a little look-see. But trustees finally gave it the okee-doke ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Dallas ISD Trustees Will, Yet Again, Debate the Merits of Opening Over-Age High School
At the Dallas Independent School District board meeting two weeks ago, the trustees held off on voting yea or nay on Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's plan to open an over-age high school in the 2010-'11 school year. Most agree that, yes, it's probably a very good thing to put, say, college-age h ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2010
During Heated Town Hall, DISD Says It'll Put Off Jubilee Park Land Grab For Six Months
Photos by Daniel RodrigueSo, how many people were at O.M. Roberts last night (jump for it) ...Last night, the Dallas Independent School District played host more than 150 folks in a heated -- though comfortably air-conditioned -- town hall meeting at the century-old O.M. Roberts Elementary School ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2010
When Mayor Leppert Calls A Meeting, Dallas ISD Jumps and Schedules Emergency Jubilee Park Sitdown
Daniel RodrigueAfter yesterday's council meeting, Mayor Leppert slapped in his Bluetooth and dialed up DISD trustee Bernadette Nutall to schedule this morning's meeting.At 9 this morning, many of those facing the loss of their property in the Jubilee Park land grab will meet with their Dallas Ind ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2010
DISD Trustee Bernadette Nutall Tells Jubilee Parkers: "I Wouldn't Want Anybody to Take My Home."
Bernadette NutallAs expected at 9 this morning, nearly 20 folks assembled in a briefing room at Dallas Independent School District's Ross Avenue HQ to hear what -- if anything -- District 9 school board trustee Bernadette Nutall would have to say about DISD's plans to exercise eminent domain to a ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2009
A Very Brief History of the DISD, Ca. 1966
Whilst doing some research for something that may not lead to anything, I've been reading Walter J. E. Schiebel's Education in Dallas: Ninety-two years of History 1874-1966, published by the Dallas Independent School District. So this isn't entirely an exercise in futility, I thought I'd share so ... More >>
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