I just heard from Lori Kirkpatrick, the school board candidate in Dallas who pledged to oppose privatization and end the insulting programs that rate, rank, reward and punish teachers. She is a parent of a child in the DISD.
The election was last Saturday. Last night, she sent a blast email to supporters saying that the final tally showed her 14 votes shy of reaching the 50% mark that she needed for a win. 14 votes!
She is heading for a runoff.
Her election will shift the majority on the Dallas school board and empower people who want to help students, teachers, and schools instead of ranking, rating, and punishing them.
Help her in any way that you can. If you are in Dallas, volunteer. If not, send a contribution of any size.
You can bet the Dallas Morning News will support her opponent, a businessman whose children are in private schools.
She needs our help!
Her website is https://www.kirkpatrick4disd.com
Diane Ravitch's blog 
May more and more citizens who understand how completely and wholeheartedly they must stand up to oppose the public school privatization game put their words and their leadership forward; the public is looking for those who can help them make SENSE.
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Today the Dallas Morning News had a strangely similar editorial to the one they published exactly one year ago predicting damage to DISD when their endorsed candidates a year ago did not win. DISD thrived this past year! See today’s editorial at
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2017/05/07/saturdays-critical-vote-mean-big-loss-dallas-kids
There is one big change. The massive discussion of last years editorial is not happening because the Morning News made changes that put an end to it. Therefore I wrote this letter to the editor today that has links to last years editorial and the huge debate generated:
========= 5-8-17 letter to the editor at Dallas Morning News ==================
Today’s editorial was very similar to the one published a year ago on 5-8-2016. A year ago I linked that editorial to my blog along with a copy of the online debate that followed. You can find that blog posting at http://schoolarchiveproject.blogspot.com/2016/05/dallas-morning-news-editorial-of-5-8-16.html
Apparently the Dallas Morning News was not comfortable with such open debate. They made technical changes that have ended such debates online over the past year.
When I linked the 5-8-16 editorial to my blog a year ago, and reposted the debate that followed, I did not realize that I was posting a type of debate that would disappear within the year on the DMN web site.
Why did that happen on the DMN web site? Should you not want to encourage such debate of these critical issues in our schools?
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