Dallas ISD Blog has conducted an interesting online poll that surprises me.
Before the Attorney General's ruling of April 30, 2009 that declared "the DISD Board of Trustees was not authorized to change the length of its members' terms after December 31, 2007," it appeared there might have been a plan underway to cancel the May 2009 Board officer elections.
The explanation would have been that the current officers should automatically remain in place until May 2010 - since there would have been no May 2009 Trustee election. However, the recent Attorney General's opinion made that more difficult to justify, but not impossible.
Maybe no Board Officer should be allowed to serve beyond two consecutive years in the same position because it undermines the development of new Board leadership.
But politics and power often prevail over principle.
Because of the violation of voting rights in canceling the May 2009 election, the Board now has six elected Trustees and three 'holdover' Trustees.
We shall see if the regular Board officer elections are held at the May 28, 2009 Board meeting.
P.S. There have been at least three former Dallas ISD Board Presidents who also worked for Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) while serving as elected Trustees - Lois Parrott (replaced by Leigh Ann Ellis), Rene Castillo and Ken Zornes (replaced by Edwin Flores). None of them had a problem because of their service.
