Dallas ISD’s Long and Winding Road to Broad Prize Just Hit a Dead End

Perhaps you’ve seen the promotional materials — they’ve been everywhere during the past five years, as the Dallas Independent School District (and superintendent Michael Hinojosa, especially) eased on down that Road to Broad, so named for the $2 million award given to urban school districts who made “the greatest progress…

Dallas ISD Investigators Find Hostile Work Environment (And, Maybe, the Worst … Boss … Ever)

Allen Gwinn over at www.dallas.org has posted a report from DISD’s Office of Professional Responsibility about its investigation of Maria C. Silva, former manager of the district’s Adult Basic Education Department. The typical journalese way to describe the report would be “scathing.” A more accurate description would probably be “holy-crap-I’m-glad-she’s-not-my-boss.”If…

Mary Kay Did Discover the Earth Was Pink

Friend of Unfair Park The Big Guy just shot us an e-mail with the subject header “Mary Kay > Christopher Columbus.” Also contained within his missive: a link to this Associated Press story about the brewing battle over State Board of Education’s new social studies curriculum standards, for which the…