1. Big news out of DISD. In the runoff election for the school board, Bruce Parrott beat incumbent Leigh Ann Ellis, and Bernadette Nutall bested Sally Cain. The election was decided by only 4,500 voters, but it looks to shake up the school board. The two new trustees are seen as being critical of the district’s administration and will change the balance of power on the board.
2. Speaking of the district’s administration, Patricia Viramontes, DISD’s executive director of information technology, was fired yesterday. No one is saying why she was let go, but the district’s annual financial report, released last month, pointed out that Viramontes’ IT system was a total mess. Too, critics had charged that Viramontes (who made $126,041) got her job through nepotism. Her husband is the district’s chief of staff, Arnold Viramontes.
3. There was much debate here yesterday about what constitutes the Knox-Henderson area, which the DMN identified as the location of a kidnapping. Well, the News is reporting that police are questioning three men in connection with the attack — which the paper now says happened in Old East Dallas. (Geographic matters aside, let’s hope the cops have the right guys. They need to go to jail for a very long time.)
