Dallas ISD
Yesterday morning, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees met for several hours to review next year’s proposed budget. It ain’t good. And yes, being able to maintain the great strides the district is making is going to cost money that may only be available through a tax ratification election — meaning superintendent Michael Hinojosa is…
Depending on who you talk to, Texas’s score on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, was either better than expected, flat, or horrible. Often referred to as “the nation’s report card,” the NAEP assesses a sampling of fourth and eighth graders every two years. Roughly 7,500 students in Texas participated in the 2017…
Embattled U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos made a surprise visit to the Dallas-Fort Worth area Thursday — so surprising that it wasn’t even on her public schedule. Not everyone was thrilled about it, though. DeVos visited Urban Specialists (a privately funded group partly funded by Stand Together, which funded by the Charles Koch-led Seminar…
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…
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…
