How are things are going at DISD?
Michael Hinojosa: I’d like to answer that question three ways. First is the most important—the academic performance of the students. It continues to improve, no matter which way you slice it. The second big item is our budget situation. No money was stolen or missing, but the auditor Deloitte found that we had “control” problems in human resources and business. Those have been rectified. We’ve brought in a new executive chief financial officer, Larry Throm, who has implemented some systems. The third thing is that, because of these issues and the things that have happened, we decided to put an outreach plan together where we went out and reached out to the community. We thought we were going to get beat up and knocked down, but that didn’t happen. from this issue D CEO SEPT-OCT 2009related links • Does the DMN have it in for the DISD? • DISD Fumbles and the Dallas Chamber Punts What about that very serious deficit you mentioned, which led to hundreds of layoffs? We had $120 million in
