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TEA Commish to Have a Heart-to-Heart with DISD’s Hinojosa

Posted on October 21st, 2008 3:31pm by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

An official with the Texas Education Agency confirms the rumor I heard earlier today: TEA Commissioner Robert Scott is coming to Dallas Friday to meet with DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa. The official word is only that the 3 o’clock confab is “to discuss the district’s current financial situation.” One presumes there won’t be much laughing and back slapping.

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6 Comments to “TEA Commish to Have a Heart-to-Heart with DISD’s Hinojosa”
  • publicnewsense @ October 21st, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    Maybe he’s going to tell Hinojosa that the state is taking over the poorly run, poorly performing district. Couldn’t do any worse.

  • LakeWWWooder @ October 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    Heart-to-Heart? How about stake in the heart?

    We lost 15 teachers at Woodrow and 13 at J.L. Long Middle. 700 WW students will have their schedules changed tomorrow. Parent and alumni volunteers are being put into place to help out.

    On a brighter note, Woodrow has 32 AP scholars this year…

  • glad2Bgone @ October 21st, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    LakeWWWooder,

    Could you guys get a group down to Ross Ave. for a little picketing around, say, 3 p.m.? A little media dust-up on the sidewalk may help your cause.

  • Dallas dingleberry @ October 21st, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    I’m sure slimey Hinojosa will squak through this meeting (probably by vowing to donate an extra 1% of his salary to the cause). Too bad the TEA commisioner can’t see the B/S coming out of Lowe, Flores, etc…

  • Mike @ October 22nd, 2008 at 8:22 am

    Never trust a school superintendant who sports an outdated mullet.

    Regarding Hinojosa’s pay cut… While listening to the radio on my home commute, the comment was made that his 5% “self imposed” pay cut only amounted to about one-half of his recent performance bonus. His annual salary never came into the picture. If the man possessed even a minimal amount of character or dedication to his profession he should have taken a 50% pay cut from his base salary.

    I am thankful that my school taxes go to the R.I.S.D.

  • JKR @ October 22nd, 2008 at 11:00 am

    Send TEA Commissioner Robert Scott your thoughts before the meeting:

    commissioner@tea.state.tx.us