News in Brief: A National Roundup

The Dallas school board voted last week to increase Superintendent Mike Moses' salary to $310,000 a year, making him one of the nation's highest-paid urban schools chiefs.

The board offered Mr. Moses the new contract to keep him from considering the chancellor's post at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. His five- year contract to lead the 164,000-student district ends in 2006.

Dallas board President Ken Zornes said board members wanted to make it "very unattractive" for Mr. Moses, a former Texas commissioner of education, to consider other jobs. Mr. Moses has said he would notify Texas Tech that he is not interested in returning to the university, where he worked before joining...