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Dallas City Center’s Kevin Caskey Says School Ratings Will Influence Real Estate Values

By Joanna England / April 1, 2015 /

With the Texas legislature set to approve a new letter grading system that adds more clarity and precision to the TEA’s rating categories, Realtors are wondering how the new approval guide will affect housing prices. The measure just cleared the Senate and is headed for the house. Lake Highlands resident and Dallas City Center Realtors…

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Dallas Public Schools: Should We Stay or Should We Go Now?

By Bethany Erickson / November 18, 2014 /

  When my husband bought the home we live in now – a 1950s bungalow in Midway Hollow – he was a bachelor. He told me several times during our courtship that he bought the house thinking that he would sell it when he got married, because three bedrooms and ONE bathroom is kind of…

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Are Arbitrary School District Boundaries Distorting Real Estate Values?

By Joanna England / August 20, 2014 /

A recent column by Heather Wilhelm highlights a huge issue in America: In order to get into a good public school, you often have to spend more on a home. Heck, brokerages have developed search tools to help you focus on the school attendance areas you want, weeding out perfectly good homes that have imperfect…

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Could Home Rule be a Boon For Homeowners? As Families Flee Dallas ISD For Suburban Districts, Better Schools May Bring Them Back

By Joanna England / March 12, 2014 /

It’s on the lips of just about every mom in my neighborhood: What will this home rule proposal mean for our failing neighborhood elementary? Will it mean we won’t have to spend an arm and a leg for private school, or uproot our family for the suburbs? That’s exactly what’s happening right now, and Dallas…

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