| Another Example of DISD Incompetence |
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| by Carolyn Barta | Sun, Apr 20, 2008, 03:14 PM |
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Forget for a moment the ethical question of whether Dallas School Board members and others with ties should get DISD contracts. The bottom line is that disclosure is the means by which many ethical breaches are avoided and others are exposed. But the DISD, as reported in a DMN page one story today, could not provide state-required records in which trustees report financial conflicts of interest. It's just another example of incompetence within the Dallas school administration. The story says School Board president Jack Lowe's firm and the companies of the chairman and other members of a task force that helped plan the 2002 and 2008 bond programs benefit from DISD contracts. The district was unable to supply annual financial reports filed by Lowe and other board members that list such contracts. Supt. Michael Hinojosa could only say his employees should have been able to come up with the documents. When the incompetence is dealt with, then maybe the school board ought to hammer out some ethical guidelines. The story is worth reading.
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written by Right Wing Republican Volunteer , April 20, 2008 Some of Dallas "business" folks have been abusing the DISD bond programs since the mid-80's. It should be a major scandal but with Dechard in control and his buddies involved, you will only see the occasional story, like today, that the DMN runs only because the word has begun to spread. The question is what else is known but was not included in the DMN version?
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written by Gehrig Saldaña , April 21, 2008 Amazing! Why would anyone be surprised DISD doesn't track sub-contractors when they do not track and/or maintain a data base of DISD students who have either been caught under the influence and/or with possession of Cheese-Heroin? Why would anyone be surprised DISD has yet to provide DISD teachers with workshops to assist them to recognize when DISD students are under the influence of the deadly Cheese-Heroin? When will Superintendent Hinojosa and the entire school board understand the same priority given to business projects should also be given to the cheese-heroin issue they have within their school district? DISD has a facilities task force right? So, when will the DISD implement a badly needed departmental/community driven cheese-heroin task force as well? You can issue out tons of contracts to build school buildings but without students, we have nothing. Is anyone on the DISD board other than trustee Carla Ranger really seeking the transparent government within the DISD it sorely lacks and greatly needs? Considering the current DISD climate of Smoke & Mirrors, I'm surprised!, Trust Us, Long Overdue Audit, & Cheese What Cheese Mentality, I bet a vast majority of DISD taxpayers would advise DISD trustees time is overdue for them to belly up to the bar, and follow trustee Carla Ranger's push to establish a firm ethics reform policy. An ethics reform policy that would prohibit DISD to award contracts to companies with financial ties to school board members and one that would leave no stone unturned to assure DISD taxpayers there is no Hanky Panky going on with political appointees who wind up being awarded bond contracts. Speaking of horrendous? Horrendous is when a DISD trustee has reached a stage in his political life where you've relegated yourself to serve as a water-boy for some DISD power brokers who want you to find an opponent for a fellow colleague on the board you serve on on behalf of DISD taxpayers. That is Horrendous!!! Ms. Ranger, have you received a response on your request that Don R. Smith Jr., Executive Director of DISD's Office of Professional Responsibility for your requested investigation? DISD taxpayers may now have a better understanding of the infamous "We're changing back to the good old days" comment of a well-known DISD power broker printed on recent copy of the Dallas Business Journal. And here I really believed every penny that was 'misused' by hundreds of morally challenged DISD employees with their DISD p-cards would be held accountable. Thus, millions of DISD taxpayer funds 'misused' have yet to be paid back to DISD taxpayers along with the insult of a million dollar investigation price tag charged to DISD taxpayers. Lets hope the DISD p-card debacle and the way the DISD p-card scandal was handled does not represent the prelude to going back to the good old days.
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written by Nobody's fool , April 22, 2008 Every Board should have a formal and written Code of Ethics, and every Board member should sign it and be bound to it. Even so, how would the DISD go about policing it, given their failures to monitor other improper and unethical behavior? When they finally get around to having one, would someone from the Media be so kind as to publish it for all us voters to see and understand? Write comment
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