{"id":36829,"date":"2019-05-03T01:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T01:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36829"},"modified":"2019-05-03T01:44:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T01:44:32","slug":"mayoral-candidates-reach-beyond-their-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36829","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidates reach beyond their limits?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=DallasISD%20%23publiceducation%20%23Dallasmayor&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dallas is going to elect a new mayor this weekend. Voters in Texas&#8217;s third-largest city have a huge slate of candidates from which to choose.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard TV ads from at least three of them say something quite unusual for candidates for municipal office.<\/p>\n<p>They vow to &#8220;strengthen&#8221; Dallas&#8217;s schools. My reaction is a simple one: Huh?<\/p>\n<p>I covered a lot of mayoral and city council races over many years working for newspapers in Oregon and Texas. I&#8217;ve never heard a sound from any of those municipal candidates say a word about public education.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you suppose that is? I have a thought: <em>It&#8217;s because school policy ain&#8217;t their concern.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, what am I missing here as I listen to these Dallas mayoral candidates vow to shore up Dallas <em>schools?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Independent School District elects a board of trustees to do that work on behalf of children and their parents. Yes, I am aware on the edges of the problems concerning DISD and some of the financial woes that have bedeviled the district.<\/p>\n<p>The TV ads from these mayoral candidates make no specific mention of those woes. They merely declare candidates&#8217; intention to create better educational environment.<\/p>\n<p>If that includes strengthening law enforcement presence on school campuses, or if it means providing clean water, or providing good lighting on public streets surrounding these schools, then . . . fine! Go for it!<\/p>\n<p>Setting school policy and implementing it is the sole province of, um, <em>independent public school systems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=DallasISD%20%23publiceducation%20%23Dallasmayor&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas is going to elect a new mayor this weekend. Voters in Texas&#8217;s third-largest city have a huge slate of candidates from which to choose. I&#8217;ve heard TV ads from at least three of them say something quite unusual for candidates for municipal office. They vow to &#8220;strengthen&#8221; Dallas&#8217;s schools. My reaction is a simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mayoral candidates reach beyond their limits?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[8601,8600,3766],"class_list":["post-36829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-dallas-isd","tag-dallas-mayors-race","tag-public-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36830,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36829\/revisions\/36830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}