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So Your School Needs a New Principal: The Worried Parent’s Guide

By Bethany Erickson / July 24, 2017 /

Have you ever wondered how a new principal is chosen in Dallas? Chances are, it’s a thing you never really thought about — until you had to. Last week, Lakewood Elementary parents found out that their principal was not returning for the coming school year, and Lipscomb Elementary found out that Woodrow’s gain in Roxanne…

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Dallas Public Schools Change the Script on Budget Meetings

By Bethany Erickson / March 25, 2016 /

I’m going to make a confession: I’ve been to more school finance and budget meetings in my career than I can count. And they’re boring. I mean, stronger-than-Ambien, potentially effective as a torture device boring. And I am one of those weird people that like budgets and reading budgets. If I was going to color…

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