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DISD trustees approve $1.25 billion budget; no raises included
Dallas school employees won’t receive a raise under a $1.25 billion budget approved by trustees at tonight’s meeting. But taxpayers will get a small break and the district’s reserve fund will grow by...
View ArticleSuperintendent Hinojosa: State budget cuts could cost Dallas ISD up to $132...
Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said Wednesday that the district is bracing for the Texas Legislature to cut $4 billion in school funding over the next two years to reduce the state’s...
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Check out budget priorities for DISD administrators
Dallas ISD trustees will meet Thursday to discuss what their priorities should be for the 2011-2012 budget in light of an expected big loss in state … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleDISD Superintendent Hinojosa says state budget situation is ‘coming to a head’
Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa updated trustees on what type of public education cuts the Texas Legislature has been discussing recently. He said the situation is reaching a head and...
View ArticleDISD Superintendent Hinojosa says he’ll consider cuts to sports
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Dallas ISD Police Chief John Blackburn takes incentive to resign
DISD Police Chief John Blackburn, who joined the district from Houston ISD in 2006, has accepted an incentive to resign at the end of the school year. Blackburn is the highest-ranking Dallas ISD...
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Viramontes took resignation incentive and left, but policy said employees...
Photo: Viramontes announced he had taken a job in February but still got the resignation incentive two months later (David woo/DMN) A … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleLatest Dallas ISD state-funding cut now sits at $123 million
The leading school finance bill out of the Texas House of Representatives would slash public education funds to school districts by $7.8 billion. But as we’ve said for months, what matters more is the...
View ArticleDallas ISD’s central office departments hardest hit in Friday’s layoffs
I just got off the phone with Dallas ISD spokesman Jon Dahlander, who provided a rundown of the departments hardest hit today. The alternative certification department lost 16 people and elminated 2...
View ArticleDallas ISD’s latest budget-reduction plan lowered to around $90 million for...
Dallas ISD trustees are expected to learn this afternoon that the district’s latest budget-reduction plan would cut about $90 million from next year’s budget, a steep decrease from what officials...
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Dallas ISD trustees select CFO Alan King to be interim superintendent
Dallas school trustees picked the district’s top finance official to temporarily lead the district over the next several months. Chief financial officer Alan King assumed the interim superintendent...
View ArticleDallas ISD employees who took resignation incentive must repay DISD to return
Dallas ISD employees who took resignation incentives in the spring will have a more difficult time rejoining the district. When the district offered the incentives for teachers, librarians and other...
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