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Another reason to vote NO on DISD May bond joke. This Supt and the Board of Trustees do not know what they are doing or how to fix the mess.

The bond election is a make work project with lots of lucrative construction projects. We need some people running DISD who care about educating and graduating Dallas kids. All we've got are people trying to make sure their buddies get a piece of the construction pie.

Well, let's see. We have one subculture that says that education is for losers, and that you should aspire to be a sports god, a rapper, or a gang member, and another subculture that says that learning English is optional. These subcultures are heavily represented in urban public schools, and not so much in suburban and private schools. Draw your own conclusions...

So clearly, the solution to the problem is (a) throw more money at it and (b) stop standardized testing, so we can go back to pretending that students are doing great.

Sharon they are going to need all the classroom space proposed in the bond issue and much more if the dropout rate improves.

If you have kids or are involved at individual schools on any kind of regular basis, you will see the need.

I'd like to know who funded this report before I swallow its conclusions whole-hog. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'd just like to know the ideological position of those who paid for it. Besides, Colin "Weapons of Mass Destruction" Powell doesn't have a whole lot of credibility.

Bill and Melinda Gates, actually. Go, Ursuline?