By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B When he took office in 2000, Dallas Superintendent Mike Moses said he wanted to be judged on his actions – the improvements he brought to the district and its children. But in a few years, how history views the Moses years will depend largely on what happens after […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 7B It may be only $42. But the newest cut in teachers’ paychecks has some of them fighting mad. “The amount is small, but it enrages our members far beyond the dollars involved,” said John Cole, president of the Texas Federation of Teachers. At issue is a change in […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 2J Most anyone who has been through school has one. Maybe it was that gifted teacher who inspired self-confidence in you for the first time. Or that first class in a subject that would become your lifetime pursuit. We asked some prominent Texans to tell us a story about […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A W.T. White can rest easy. Dr. White led the Dallas school district from 1945 to 1968 and holds the city’s record for longest-serving superintendent – 23 years. Mike Moses was burned out a few months past three. And no one expects the next superintendent’s tenure to last much […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A How you evaluate Mike Moses’ tenure as Dallas superintendent depends on what you value. As a manager and a political figure, it’s hard to call him anything but a success. He put a more positive face on the district than Dallas had seen in years. He convinced a […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 4H PARADISE COMPOUND, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – It took a moment for Mwiche Simukoko’s family to realize she was dead. “There was no big sign,” says her aunt, Terry Nkoma, sitting in the dirt outside the family’s mud-brick house, where Mwiche’s wet tuberculosis cough had echoed a few hours earlier. […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B For 63,984 members of the Class of 2005, it was the first last chance. That’s how many of Texas’ rising seniors failed at least one section of last year’s Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. This week, many of them filed into their high schools for another stab […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B Texans don’t always value the same things as the rest of the country. We probably like our barbecue more and our lutefisk less than folks up north, for instance. But every once in a while, you start to wonder if those folks outside the Republic might be onto […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 4B A Dallas County grand jury decided Thursday not to indict a Seagoville Elementary School teacher who disciplined an 8-year-old boy by having his classmates take turns hitting him. “She’s very relieved,” said the teacher’s attorney, Ted Steinke. “She feels bad about what happened. She had absolutely no malicious […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1B A crippling virus swept across the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston last month, disabling all it touched and stopping doctors from treating some patients. It wasn’t the sort of virus that could be stopped by surgical masks and drugs. Rather, it was the Sasser […]