Bethany Erickson

Bethany Erickson lives in a 1961 Fox and Jacobs home with her husband, a second-grader, and Conrad Bain the dog. If she won the lottery, she'd by an E. Faye Jones home.
She's taken home a few awards for her writing, including a Gold award for Best Series at the 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors journalism awards, a 2018 Hugh Aynesworth Award for Editorial Opinion from the Dallas Press Club, and a 2019 award from NAREE for a piece linking Medicaid expansion with housing insecurity.
She is a member of the Online News Association, the Education Writers Association, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
She doesn't like lima beans or the word moist.

Dallas Public Schools: A Few More Questions for District 1 Candidate Kyle Renard

By Bethany Erickson / April 29, 2015 /

Kyle Renard, who is running against Edwin Flores for Dallas ISD Board of Trustees, District 1, wasn’t having a really good day yesterday. Called out by the Dallas Morning News, she then got a few questions from me after I uncovered a few more things while doing my rundown of candidate endorsements last week. In…

Election Day 101: Six Vie for Three Seats on Dallas ISD Board of Trustees

By Bethany Erickson / April 24, 2015 /

Did you know it costs somewhere in the neighborhood of one million dollars – $1 million of our tax dollars – for Dallas ISD’s portion of a May election? And did you know next to nobody votes in May elections? Because it’s true. That being said, it is ridiculously easy to vote (provided you have…

So Before You Vote: Another Update About Adam McGough

By Bethany Erickson / April 21, 2015 /

Update April 26: After talking to Adam McGough’s campaign manager and analyzing more utility bills, we have issued an apology to the Adam McGough for City Council campaign.  Apparently the family’s utility usage was NOT that out of the ordinary, for a family of three boys, despite the low electricity usage records we were sent by a…

Dallas Public Schools: How Does Your School Work?

By Bethany Erickson / April 14, 2015 /

The Bridge Fund has passed, as I noted previously, but what I appreciated in the days leading up to the school board’s vote on it was that it began a serious dialogue about the challenges schools face in providing an education to students of all backgrounds. I think (I hope) that the ensuing and continuing…

Dallas Public Schools: Finally, Some Pre-K Clarity

By Bethany Erickson / April 2, 2015 /

So remember how I went to drop off Tiny’s Pre-K enrollment packet and was met with total confusion? And then remember how, still confused about how Pre-K in DISD works for sure, we opted for a new plan involving a private Pre-K? You do? Good, because now we’re at the same point in the saga…