Joyce Foreman
5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20: This story was updated to show that Dallas City Council candidates Rickey Lee Perry (District 3), Barbara Markham (District 10), and Jrmar Jefferson (mayor) did not meet qualifications and therefore will not appear on the May 6 ballot. Forty-five candidates have filed for 14 Dallas City Council races and the…
Read MoreDallas ISD school board trustee Joyce Foreman has a lot to brag about in her district these days, and that includes DA Hulcy STEAM Middle School. “I certainly think there are some good stories about schools in Southwest Oak Cliff,” Foreman told us. “We recently turned an elementary school into a TAG Magnet, there is…
Read MoreAs we take a look at Dallas ISD District 6 today, keep in mind that through next Tuesday, early voting means you, too, can walk in, do your civic duty, and walk back out in less time than it takes to pick up your dry cleaning. Yesterday, between tutoring for Reading Partners and carpool, I…
Read MoreFourteen Dallas City Council seats and three Dallas Independent School District trustee seats are up for grabs on May 6. I’ll start saying this early — as I always do: It can cost somewhere around $1 million to hold an election, and in most May Dallas elections, we see less than 10 percent of voters…
Read MoreAs you’ve probably read by now, the Dallas Independent School District’s Board of Trustees voted 5-3 last night to purchase the building at 9400 N. Central Expressway in a bid to consolidate the district’s various departments that are currently spread all over Dallas County. We can debate the merits of having a building where hundreds…
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