My disdain for The Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) is obvious. As a former science and math teacher I find the TEI process both...

My disdain for The Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) is obvious. As a former science and math teacher I find the TEI process both...

While testifying in Austin before the Texas Commission on Public School Finance earlier this year, I heard a school superintendent recall...

Algorithms are Opinions Embedded in Code I have been very vocal about the destructive Teacher Excellence Initiative (TEI) in Dallas ISD....

Money is power, the power of Education Reformers to elect privatization friendly candidates to our local school board and Dallas Kids...

I am about to say something that I’m guessing many of you will find truly shocking. I have nothing against charter or private schools....

The ACE program is being heralded by Dallas ISD and by some in the business community as a successful program to remove struggling...

Dallas Kids First (DKF) candidates are bought and paid for by corporate education Reform money, period. Here’s who’s electing your DISD...

We are headed in the wrong direction. It’s time to turn this ship around and sail to the proper port (or some such metaphor). The...

Imagine this for a moment: Your employer presented a 49 page document explaining how your annual evaluation was going to be handled. The...

The Campaign Activity Management Program, or CAMP, is the latest in a series of fellowship programs to pop up in Dallas, Texas under the...

The Trustee seat for District 2 of the Dallas ISD was an open seat in both 2016 and 2017, or so we thought. The seat was vacated early in...

In a recent editorial founder and CEO of Friends of Texas Public Schools Scott Milder speaks out about the harsh reality surrounding...

Mark Harrington is a 23 year veteran teacher with Dallas ISD since 1999. He chairs the Social Studies Department, has developed...

The dog days of summer are here and believe it or not it's time to start preparing for the start of a new school year. This social media...

There have been a couple of articles written recently in the local papers that just weren’t quite accurate and omitted some very...

When I look back on the past 5 months, there is only one word that comes to mind: grateful! I am so grateful for this opportunity to...

PUBLIC EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK and we need not look all the way to the state or national levels of education policy to see this. As is...

CLAIM: In a Dallas Observer article on 5/31, Mr. Schutze references an interview with Gilberto Hinojosa which incorrectly states my...

I want teachers to be able to teach children to think critically, to captivate their love of learning, and to nurture the creativity and...