Dallas ISD Trustees Ain't Pleased Hinojosa Made Himself Available For Job in Georgia

Guest

Hinojosa is desperately trying to grow that faux-mullet into a pony tail and it ain't working out for him.

Erich S

Hey, what about a class action lawsuit against this clown? He's on record saying that he was here to stay and he wasn't looking for another job. Obviously a lie. I say, stiff this lying asshole. Texas shouldn't be paying this goober's pension. He's a bad super, and I don't want him around but this guy shouldn't be getting rich off our backs. What a fucker!

DISD Teacher

Okay, so the Trustees who voted to extend his contract*:CowanFloresBinghamLoweMedrano*After being visited by the unelected, know-nothing-about-education Dallas Citizens Cartel and the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce, according to Parrott.

And we thought the trustees served the children and parents of Dallas and the taxpayers of Dallas.

Anonymous

Funny, I thought Cowan was supposed to bring some fresh ideas. I hope someone good runs against him in District 7 so we can have him in and out of office before he does any more damage.

RS1963

I find it stunning that another district would hire him after 2 weeks? I'm stunned because I didn't think there was another school board dumber than ours.

Snookie Pie

so, we can start sending our kids to DISD, now? Is that right? Now that Hiney's gone, we can go back to using DISD?

what a fucktard those trustees are.

and, I agree with a prior comment: now we know that all the trustees that voted to extend his contract are taking their orders (and bribes) from the Citizens Council/Dallas Chamber of Commerce.

Anonymous

Vote out every trustee who voted to extend his contract. Do not re-elect these idiots. Your highest paid employee publicly applies for 2 other jobs and he hasn't been fired yet? Get rid of him, like yesterday. Get rid of the trustees who support him.

DISD Teacher

His Texas teacher system retirement (probably):-average last 3 years of salary-you get 2/3 of that number

The question is: Do all the perks (like the chauffeur) count as his salary?

Disgusting.

Fantastic, caring teachers are making $50,000 a year. When their age plus years of service equals 90, they get 2/3 of the average of their last 5 years of service (Hinojosa was hired when the rules were different).

Teachers cannot receive their deceased spouse's Social Security, simply bc they taught in a Texas public school.

Top-end teachers make 70K.Coaches shake you down for lots more and often don't even teach a class.Administrators like Ivonne Durant make at least $150K.

Ardy

How long does he get the $180k retirement?

Preston Holler

Tell he croaks.

gabbahey

Was the DISD in the shitter before he was made the super?

DISD Teacher

Believe it or not, under Moses, DISD was starting to make strides.

Then along came Flores and Hinojosa and Jack Lowe.And the Dallas Achieves crew.

And, of course, your unmonitored tax dollars.

Long-time teachers--most of them excellent--say they have never seen the district more dysfunctional and ineffective.

Das Boot

Welcome to the educational-industrial complex: where the barely competent with a proper demographic reap rewards and job-hop and pension-gather until the cows come home. Then add to their haul by being consultants to the districts in which they planted their sycophants. DISD and its brethren around the country are led by administrators who are more intent on gaining access to this merry-go-round than they are in education. Shame on them and shame on our society for accepting such self-serving bullshit.

Thelisma Partridge

This sounds exactly like our wonderful political-industrial complex aka The Revolving Door.

Rooster

Man, looking at that picture he needs to save some of that "Just for Men" he's putting on his head for his mustache....

CrackerDaddy

Fuck. Him. I'm with Bruce Parrot (glad I voted for him :-)) and the other unnamed trustee -- don't the door hit him in the ass on the way out.

Robert Wilonsky

Even if he doesn't get the job in Georgia, how can he stay here? He's lost the board. He lied about not wanting to leave.

And consider this: hiring a new super will be a time-consuming, costly and possibly contentious process -- when the district can least afford the distraction or the expense.

Bill Holston

Doesn't he have a contract that guarantees he can stay or sue the District. That's why giving this contract extension was such a bad idea. He can tool us around as long as he wants. Sad. Very sad.

DISD Teacher

We need Mike MacNaughton to tell us which trustees voted to extend the contract. Pretty sure Flores, Lowe, and Cowan did.

Now we know who they serve.

Robert Wilonsky

It was 5-4 to extend. Those voting against: Ranger, Blackburn, Nutall and Parrott.

Jay Hawk

Here's an idea: why not keep the job open for a year and then use the money he would have received to keep the programs and teachers they were going to cut.

Bill Holston

how about keeping it open until we notice that it's vacant.

Preston Holler

You ask: "How can he stay here?"

Easy peesy. Edwin and all the Edwin lovers out there will trip over themselves to say this proves once again what a fantastic Super Hiney is because he is in such demand. Then, they will rush to extend his contract out another few years to really, really show him just how valued he is to the DISD.

Everyone knows what is going on. Hiney is going to milk the DISD until dies. Then, he'll end up on the payroll of one of the many consulting firms that he has shoveled money to over the years.

It is the circle of corruption that is the DISD. It won't ever freakin' change until the voting public wises up to the Flores of the world that use the DISD for political and/or personal gain.

He's got a contract extension. As you say, replacing him will be a distraction and will be expensive. To top it off, call the boneheads who were all for giving him the extension aren't going to change their minds over him. Flores called him a rock star for Pete's sake.

How can he stay? How are you going to get rid of him?

cynical old bastard

"We got pressure from the [Dallas Regional] Chamber and the Citizens Council for the board to extend his contract,"

Since when did the Board or taxpayers ever have a say in this? Doesn't this prove that the role of DISD is to provide construction contracts for well placed companies?

DISD Teacher

Amen, COB.

The Citizens Cartel and the Chamber are unelected but the trustees apparently care more about them than THE VOTERS AND TAXPAYERS OF THIS CITY.

We need to name and shame the trustees who voted to extend the contract and every member of the Dallas Citizens Cartel.

Ellum08

CCSD might want to take a look at another Dallas hire made by a Cobb County entity and how that worked out.

Jay Hawk

If you're talking about the guy who was police chief before Kunkle, that's not Cobb County, but nearby DeKalb. Still, also a questionable hire.

Ellum08

I was and thanks for the fact check. I was just too lazy to google. Sorry.

Downtown Resident

Does this idiot face any penalties for breaking his contract?

Montemalone

I was wondering what kind of golden parachute he awarded himself. He'll probably make out like a bandito.

Preston Holler

Montemalone: I guarantee he didn't "award himself" any golden parachute. The only people who could do that are the Board of Trustees.

You know, the ones that have the responsbility to oversee the management of the District. The ones that backed Hiney on all of his god foresaken initiatives and construction spending. The ones like Flores that cheered him on as a "Rock Star."

The ones that watched him try to be the first rat off the sinking ship via Las Vegas. The ones that saw this obvious attempt to leave them holding the bag. THE ONES THAT FRIGGIN' REWARDED HIS DISLOYALTY WITH A CONTRACT EXTENSION.

The ones that were and always have been blind to his lies.

You want to blame anyone, blame every trustee who stupidly voted for the contract extension.

DISD Teacher

According to Parrott, the mis-trustees do the bidding of the Dallas Citizens Cartel.

A big thanks to the Cartel, the trustees, and the Regional Chamber for killing Dallas one neighborhood at time with their selfish, greedy mismanagement of DISD.

Hinojosa's actions vs. his speeches come as no surprise to teachers. Like canaries in the coal mine, we have been sounding the alarm about him for quite some time.

Jay Hawk

One would assume he would retire from Texas and collect a pension on top of what he makes at the new job.

DISD Teacher

If he retires from DISD and the Teachers' Retirement System, he'll start getting a teaching pension.

By the way, teachers are FORCED to pay into that system instead of Social Security.

And if my husband dies before me, SIMPLY BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN A TEACHER, my husband's benefits end with him.

Any spouse who works elsewhere will continue to rec their spouse's SS, but not Texas teachers.

moderndrift

Am I missing something here? This doesn't look like a big loss. By almost every measure DISD is horrible at educating students, I only see an upside in getting new blood at the top of the district.

Looking to the future, no amount of parks, bridges or starchitects will save urban Dallas, we need to improve the school system so families won't flee to the suburbs.