Education
It’s hard to find anyone who has spent much time at all around a school that will tell you that teachers are overpaid. In fact, most people that know children and all their levels of rambunctiousness will tell you that teachers are underpaid. But that’s not just hyperbole. A recent study of teacher salaries by…
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If you’re like most parents, June is looming large on your calendar. Choosing summer activities for a school-aged child can be a difficult needle to thread — there’s timing involved, financial commitments and well, your work schedule, too. Dallas ISD began offering summer camp offerings — in addition to the usual summer school fare we’re…
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After what the district is terming a “health incident” at the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy (or IDEA) at James Fannin on Friday, miscommunications seemed to be rife as more than one person reached out to say that a student at the school had full-blown tuberculosis. IDEA is high school housed in the former James Fannin…
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It was a busy and productive monthly meeting of the Dallas ISD board of trustees Thursday evening, with much of the night centered on the creation of two new choice schools and an update on the Accelerating Campus Excellence program. The district’s ACE program has been partly responsible for the turnaround of several Improvement Required…
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After the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week, Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa used time at Thursday evening’s school board meeting that is usually reserved for him to update the school board on district events and happenings to talk about the impact these incidents has on schools locally.
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