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Dallas ISD Superintendent Named Winner of Empowered Superintendent Award
Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa has been named the winner of the Empowered Superintendent Award by the Texas K-12 CTO Council.
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Dallas ISD Chief of School Leadership Named as Lone Finalist for Austin ISD Superintendent Position
Austin ISD has voted to approve a lone finalist for its next superintendent.
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US School Districts Weigh Duty to Migrants in Shelters
When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. The superintendent reached out and agreed to send 19 bilingual teachers, mobile classrooms and hundreds of computers to make the learning environment resemble one of his schools. While a government contractor...
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Colorado School District Introduces 4-Day Weeks to Cut Costs
Hate Mondays? Maybe you should consider moving to Colorado. A school district in the Centennial State has cancelled school on Mondays in favor of a four-day school week. But Garfield-like attitudes is not why school district 27J, located outside Denver, made the decision. The district, which serves 18,000 students in Brighton, Commerce City, Henderson, Thornton and Aurora, believes that the...
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Departing Dallas FBI Chief Eric Jackson Chased City Corruption Vowing, ‘The Citizens of Dallas, They Deserve Better'
Eric Jackson arrived in Dallas in March 2017 as the FBI’s special agent in charge, two years later he is leaving but not before compiling a list of Dallas public officials who are now facing prison time.
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Former Dallas County Schools Board President Larry Duncan Former DCS Board President Sentenced to Probation, Home Confinement
Larry Duncan, the former board president of Dallas County Schools, is sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years of probation after pleading guilty to tax evasion in the Dallas County Schools criminal conspiracy.
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Former Dallas County Schools Board President Larry Duncan Former DCS Board President Sentenced to Probation, Home Confinement
Larry Duncan, the former board president of Dallas County Schools, is sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years of probation after pleading guilty to tax evasion in the Dallas County Schools criminal conspiracy.
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Former Dallas Councilman Dwaine Caraway Reports to Big Spring Federal Prison Tuesday
Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is scheduled to report to federal prison Tuesday morning.
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Legislators Pass Bill Abolishing Dallas County Schools Dissolution Committee, Closing Chapter on 172-Year-Old Agency
Texas legislators passed SB2018 this week, the final chapter in shutting down Dallas County Schools.
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Even After Stealing From the Public, Ex-School Officials Keep Their Pensions
Rick Sorrells is a disgraced former school administrator, an admitted criminal, a soon-to-be resident of the federal prison system and, despite all of that, he is eligible to receive his full state pension.
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Man Behind the Cameras Scheduled for Sentencing in DCS Scandal
As he awaits his sentencing, just the mention of Robert Leonard, a central player in a scandal that rocked Dallas City Hall and killed a once-reputable school agency, continues to stir the anger from the people hurt by corruption.
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Man Behind the Cameras Scheduled for Sentencing in DCS Scandal
As he awaits his sentencing, just the mention of Robert Leonard, a central player in a scandal that rocked Dallas City Hall and killed a once-reputable school agency, continues to stir the anger from the people hurt by corruption.
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Man Behind the Cameras, Robert Leonard, Sentenced to Prison in Dallas County Schools Scandal
Robert Leonard, a central player in what federal prosecutors say may be “the largest domestic public corruption case in history,” has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the Dallas County Schools school bus camera scandal.
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Even After Stealing From the Public, Ex-School Officials Keep Their Pensions
Rick Sorrells is a disgraced former school administrator, an admitted criminal, a soon-to-be resident of the federal prison system and, despite all of that, he is eligible to receive his full state pension.
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Slater Swartwood Sr. Sentenced to Federal Prison for Money Laundering in Dallas County School Scandal
Slater Swartwood Sr. was sentenced Tuesday to federal prison after pleading guilty to a money laundering conspiracy charge in December 2017.
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Teens Killed in Apparent Murder-Suicide in Watertown After Argument About Smoking: Police
A man is suspected of shooting and killing his girlfriend’s teenage son and daughter at their Watertown home Tuesday night after an argument about him smoking cigarettes in the house escalated, according to police. They said the man had moved into the home just two weeks earlier.
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‘Disaster Declaration' Following Dallas Tornado in Doubt
Millions of dollars in federal disaster relief following Dallas’ October tornado is now in limbo.
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Big Buses, Bigger Problems: The $25 Million DCS Land Deal
As Dallas County Schools began to sink into financial trouble, the agency sold taxpayer-owned land in order to get fast cash, NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered.
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How Frisco ISD Is Dealing With Growing Pains
Frisco ISD has added more than 700 students since Labor Day, 250 of those since the holiday break.
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Child Killed When School Bus, Train Collide in Athens
Athens ISD says a middle school student was killed and an elementary school student and the bus driver were injured after a school bus was hit by a Union Pacific train around 4 p.m. Friday when the bus was in a train crossing.