By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 4A A Utah company has been hired to investigate the test scores of Texas schools and determine which ones are cheating. The decision to hire Caveon was prompted by a series of stories in The Dallas Morning News last winter that found highly unusual swings in test scores at […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B Add one more item to the list of question marks about the future of Wilmer-Hutchins schools. A lawsuit in state district court is seeking to throw out the state-appointed board of managers, rehire all the district’s laid-off teachers and bring back the old school board that state officials […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A Pinkie Mae Gardner entered this world in 1924, three years before the Wilmer-Hutchins school district did. She never thought she would outlive it. “I hope it lasts forever,” she says. “It doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen, though.” Ms. Gardner is a walking piece of district history. She’s […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B The Texas Education Agency is close to an agreement that would sell off most of Wilmer-Hutchins’ campuses and land and indirectly use the proceeds to funnel $4 million to Dallas schools. Officials hope that the extra money will make it more appealing for Dallas to accept Wilmer-Hutchins’ 2,700 […]
By Joshua Benton and Tawnell Hobbs Staff Writers Page 1B The Wilmer-Hutchins High Eagles may have flown for the last time. Dallas school officials have decided that Wilmer-Hutchins High is too dilapidated to keep open – even just for the next year. “We’ve concluded and notified trustees that we’re not going to use Wilmer-Hutchins High […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B Dallas school officials seem ready to take on the students of Wilmer-Hutchins – as long as it doesn’t cost the district any money. “It’s not these children’s fault where they’ve been born or where they live,” trustee Ron Price said at a board meeting Thursday night. “But it […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B Having been spurned in its first attempt at courtship, the Wilmer-Hutchins school district now turns to Dallas. Dallas Independent School District trustees are to meet today to discuss taking over the job of educating Wilmer-Hutchins’ 2,700 students – either for the next school year or permanently. “I openly […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B Lancaster schools are in too delicate a position to be taking on the massive problems of Wilmer-Hutchins, more than a dozen residents argued at a public hearing Tuesday night. “If your boat is already sinking, you don’t put another rock in the boat,” resident Herman Tucker said. Mr. […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 11B On Monday night, Wilmer-Hutchins managers voted to shut down the district’s schools for the coming school year. Here are some common questions and answers about what happens next: Who will be teaching Wilmer-Hutchins’ students next school year? It’s unclear. The top choice of district leaders is the Lancaster […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A Wilmer-Hutchins schools will shut down for the next year, district leaders decided Monday night, and their teachers, principals and librarians are out of work. But the district received an unexpected lifeline from its state managers that could bring the district back from the dead in one year’s time. […]