Tales of Two Boards: Under State Order, Dallas Tries To Clean Up Its Act
Many of the criticisms that have been leveled at big-city school boards have been thoroughly documented in the Dallas Independent School District. In fact, the Texas Education Agency was so appalled at what it found in Dallas that last August it appointed a special monitor to help the school board clean up its act. Now, the board is struggling to surmount its difficulties.
In 1980, D Magazine published a special report on the Dallas Independent School District called "This Chaos Must End.'' The story about the city's school board, headlined "Dallas' Own Taypayer-Financed Circus,'' was illustrated with a colorful drawing of laughing clowns.
The damning article called the school board "the worst elected governmental body that Dallas has ever seen,'' asserting that the school trustees "can't function together as...
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