Thursday, October 20, 2011

Dallas ISD Trustees again vote to suppress democracy

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Board of Trustees
The vote this evening to again change Dallas ISD Board policy BE (Local) to prevent an individual Trustee from pulling an agenda item for a separate vote was as follows.

Voting to suppress democracy and require two Trustees:

Mike Morath
Lew Blackburn
Bernadette Nutall
Edwin Flores
Nancy Bingham
Eric Cowan

Voting to uphold the right of an individual Trustee to pull an item for a separate vote:

Adam Medrano
Bruce Parrott
Carla Ranger

The vote was 6-3 against democracy.

It is the second time this has been done since 2006 and for the same reason.

The purpose is to make dissent and public discussion of public issues more difficult.