Gehrig Saldaña

Dallas ISD hands millions in contracts to top leaders' firms (By Lori Stahl, DallasNews.com, 4/20/8)

Amazing! Why is anyone surprised DISD doesn't track subcontractors 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 is anyone surprised DISD has yet to provide DISD teachers with workshops to help them recognize when a student is under the influence of the deadly Cheese-Heroin?

Is anyone on the DISD board other than trustee Carla Ranger really seeking transparent government within the DISD, which it sorely lacks and greatly needs? There is a current DISD climate of Smoke and Mirrors; I'm surprised!; Trust Us; Long Overdue Audit and 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.

We need an ethics reform policy that prohibits DISD awarding contracts to companies with financial ties to school board members. We need an ethics policy that leaves no stone unturned to assure DISD taxpayers there is no Hanky Panky going on with political appointees who wind up with big bond contracts.

Speaking of horrendous - horrendous is when a DISD trustee reaches the stage in his political life where he becomes the waterboy for some DISD power brokers who want him to find an opponent for a fellow DISD Trustee.

Ms. Ranger, have you received a response to 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 in a recent copy of the Dallas Business Journal.

I really believed every one of the hundreds of morally-challenged DISD employees who 'misused' their DISD p-cards would be held accountable. Millions of DISD taxpayer funds 'misused' have not yet been and likely will never be paid back to DISD taxpayers. Then we doubly insulted with the million dollar investigation price tag charged to DISD taxpayers.

Is the DISD p-card debacle and the way the DISD p-card scandal was handled a prelude to going back to the good old days?