Re:
"Staff running from DISD," Sunday Letters.
What person checks the
facts before printing "Letters"? I must set the record straight.
I was not president of the
school board that brought in Bill Rojas. I was president of the board that
fired him 12 months later. I did not vote to give him a severance package.
He sued to try to get one. I was president of the board that brought in
Mike Moses.
Edison schools did
outperform the Dallas school district's historically mediocre gains prior
to Dr. Moses. Edison's failure was not outpacing the achievement scores of
Dallas schools under Mike Moses. With a great superintendent, the district
did not need Edison.
I supported Community
Education Partners based on the superintendent's recommendation and the
lobbying efforts of Gary Griffith, a paid Community Education Partners
consultant. We now face each other in a runoff
My record and name are all
over the issues of fiscal restraint, control, monitoring and reform.
Leaders, people who take action, take stands that sometimes upset the
status quo. I can take the criticism, but do not distort the truth.
Roxan Staff, Dallas
