Hundreds of Dallas ISD Teachers Take $10K Buyout: About 500 teachers submitted their resignations Saturday, some sleeping overnight at the Dallas ISD administration building for the chance to get the district’s $10,000 buyout payment. That’s a nice chunk of change if, like some of the people interviewed in the DMN story, you were already planning on leaving teaching.
Cost of Building Roads Mortgages Texas’ Future: Debt service takes up an increasingly greater portion of the Texas Department of Transportation’s budget as the state agency struggles to pay for road projects despite the availability of funding. With the state of state finances being what they are, don’t expect that to change anytime soon.
Bill Lively Says He Won’t Be Part of Next Super Bowl Bid Committee: Although the new symphony CEO says he won’t be a part of any future effort to bring the Super Bowl to North Texas (can you blame him?) Bill Lively does have some advice for future efforts, including keeping a cap on costs.
