Scattershooting: School Budgets, Exonerees, Black Radio | Everyday Citizen

Menu

Front Page
Table of Contents
Blogs Archives
Action Center
Other Sites We Like
Breaking News
Book Reviews
About Us
FAQ

Shortcuts

Connect with us on Facebook!

Subscribe.
[Feeds & Readers]

Follow us on Twitter!

Make us your home page!

Authors, sign in!

« Mainstream Media: Increasingly Disconnected, Irrelevant | Main | Poor People Outgive the Rest of Us »

« Previous Entry | Front Page | Next Entry »

Scattershooting: School Budgets, Exonerees, Black Radio

By Gerald Britt
May 30, 2009

Dr. Michael Hinojosa, Superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District and I had dueling op-ed columns in the Dallas Morning News yesterday. Dr. Hinojosa believes that cuts in the budget of magnet schools and learning centers in DISD are required in order to avoid loss of Title I and stimulus dollars for education. He also believes its an issue of 'fairness'. Let's just say, I disagree.

I've been hoping that school board trustee Carla Ranger would be elected President of the DISD school board. She was voted 2nd VP. Adam Medrano has been elected president and Lew Blackburn is 1st VP. All should be steps in the right direction...

In the category of REALLY GOOD NEWS - Jerry Lee Evans became the 20th man freed from prison, exonerated by DNA evidence. Mr. Evans is 47 years old and has been in prison 22 years! "I’m not angry at all," said Evans. Amazing. Absolutely amazing...

Interesting read? Why Black Radio Doesn't Deserve Our Help.

Finally, what am I reading now: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro.

Published May 30, 2009 by Gerald Britt | Permalink | Tags: Criminal Justice Public Schools Texas

Post your own comment

Name:

Email Address:

Remember personal info?

(To create links here or for style, you may wish to use HTML tags in your comments) We want to know what you think. Feel free to share whatever you'd like to:

Our sponsors help us stay online to serve you. Thank you for doing your part! By using the specific links below to start any of your online shopping, you are making a tremendous difference. By using the links below, you are directly helping to support this community website:

Want to browse more blogs? Try our table of contents to find articles under specific topics or headings. Or you might find interesting entries by looking through the complete archives too. Stay around awhile. We're glad you're here.

Browse the Blogs!

You are here!

This page contains only one entry posted to Everyday Citizen on May 30, 2009 12:51 PM.

The blog post previous to it is titled "Mainstream Media: Increasingly Disconnected, Irrelevant"

The post that follows this one is titled "Poor People Outgive the Rest of Us"

Want to explore this site more?

Many more blog posts can be found on our Front Page or within our complete Archives.

Does a particular subject interest you?

You can easily search for blog posts under a specific topic by using our List of Categories.

Visit our friends!

The nationally acclaimed Everyday Citizen recently launched its first state-specific site, Kansas Free Press! Though you may not live in Kansas, see for yourself how citizens there are striving to be the change they want to see!

Books You Might Like!

Notices & Policies

All of the Everyday Citizen authors are delighted you are here. We all hope that you come back often, leave us comments, and become an active part of our community. Welcome!

All of our contributing authors are credentialed by invitation only from the editor/publisher of EverydayCitizen.com. If you are visiting and are interested in writing here, please feel free to let us know.

For complete site policies, including privacy, see our Frequently Asked Questions. This site is designed, maintained, and owned by its publisher, Everyday Citizen Media. EverydayCitizen.com, The Everyday Citizen, everydaycitizens.com, and Everyday Citizen are trademarked names.

Each of the authors here retain their own copyrights for their original written works, original photographs and art works. Our authors also welcome and encourage readers to copy, reference or quote from the content of their blog postings, provided that the content reprints include obvious author or website attribution and/or links to their original postings, in accordance with this website's Creative Commons License .

Copyright, 2007-2011, All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified, first by each the respective authors of each of their own individual blogs and works, and then by the editor and publisher for any otherwise unreserved and all other content. Our editor primarily reviews blogs for spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting and is not liable or responsible for the opinions expressed by individual authors. The opinions and accuracy of information in the individual blog posts on this site are the sole responsibility of each of the individual authors.