Behind-the-scenes feuding seems to be the norm among Dallas school board members these days. The latest: a quiet skirmish over just when to pick School Superintendent Linus Wright’s successor. The board vowed earlier this year that Wright’s successor would be a minority who would be employed at least six months before Wright’s exit. Although Wright’s contract ensures his employment through August of 1988, there is a movement among minority school trustees to pick the new superintendent before spring. Why? That’s when school board president Robert Hester, a black, and trustee Richard Curry, who often sides with minority trustees, both face reelection. Should they be defeated, it could be a brand new ball game.
The shaky state of school politics is one of the reasons the Positive Parents of Dallas, a privately funded group begun a few years ago to promote the Dallas public schools, will stay in business for at least the next three years. Positive P’s spokesperson Kathy Johnson says The Dallas Foundation has agreed to underwrite half the group’s six-figure budget for the next three years, and Lomas & Nettleton has likewise agreed to fund Positive P’s realtor project, which provides prospective homebuyers with information about area schools.
Writers often fret over what is called “lead time” in the print media business-the time between writing and actual publication when anything can happen to unravel a story- and often does. We couldn’t help but notice a classic case of lead time disaster in the Sunday, August 10 edition of The Dallas MorningNews. The headline to society scribe Jane Wolfe’s column read “America’s Club Goes International.” On the surface, there was nothing odd about the report, written for a Thursday deadline, on the Starck Club’s plans to open counterparts in Barcelona, Mexico City. London, and Paris. It would have been a pretty routine column if the trendy West End nightclub hadn’t been raided by police Friday night-after Wolfe’s story was already printed. That night police arrested thirty-six people at “America’s Club,” for either drug possession or public intoxication. Judging from the evidence found after the bust, the club was already pretty “international’-as in Colombia. Peru, etc.
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