Regarding “Vermont signed a $5 million contract for school finance software. It turned out to be ‘low performing’ and ‘full of glitches’”: This cost only reflects the state’s portion of the software company’s bill. It does not take into consideration the countless and costly hours of manpower necessary to manipulate the software to do the most basic of accounting tasks, and the work within districts in training to use a system with many inefficient steps in operations. Nor does it grasp the costly loss in credibility that districts suffered due to this debacle. From 60 to 80 percent of districts
Our recommendations in the June 5 runoff
Ten local races to be decided.
Six of the Dallas City Council s 15 seats will be decided in the June 5 runoff. All 14 council seats were in play this spring; the mayoral term is four years and will next be on the ballot in 2023.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
Dallas City Council District 2: Sana Syed
A number of strong candidates are standing to replace council member Adam Medrano, leaving due to term limits. Of those running, Sana Syed stands out as most prepared to raise up all areas of District 2. From Oak Lawn to the Cedars to East Dallas, the V-shaped district includes some of the city’s greatest assets and some of its most serious social and economic challenges.
More than 12% of Richardson’s registered voters took part in the city’s May 1 election, according to city officials.
Voters selected City Council members, Richardson ISD board members and approved the school district’s $750 million bond package.
Collin County saw 14.71% of registered voters in the county cast ballots in the spring election, while Dallas County had 9.63% voter turnout, according to data from the two counties. Richardson Deputy City Manager Don Magner said the city’s combined turnout for the two counties was 12.52%.
“We always want as many people to take part as they can, but for a local election it is a good turnout,” Magner said.
One Richardson City Council race heading to runoff, Place 4 council incumbent defeated
Five city council races were uncontested.
The city of Richardson is pictured in this file photo.(Video screenshot by City of Richardson)
Richardson City Council candidates Arefin Shamsul and Marilyn Frederick are headed to a June 5 runoff election.
Shamsul received 40.5% of the votes for the Place 6 race and Frederick had 30%. Candidates must earn at least 50% of votes to avoid going to a runoff.
The May 1 election also saw Joe Corcoran defeat incumbent Kyle Kepner for the Place 4 council seat. Corcoran received 53.4% of the votes and Kepner, who was seeking a second term, secured 46.6%.
archives. website wikileaks released secret classified military documents on the afghanistan war. three news organizations initially got the information from wikileaks, including the new york times. we would like your reaction to this this morning. you can also find as online, journal@c-span.org and r twitter handle this twitter.com/c-span- wj. we are also on facebook. let us look at the shtick piece. the new york times reports the documents attached a war hamstrung by that afghan government, police force and army of questionable loyalty and confidence. jumping down in this story, the new york times talk about some of the details and what is information has yielded. they say the taliban used portable heat seeking missiles against out allied aircraft. we will move on into the story. we want to check in with journalist mike allen from politico. politico has been following this as most media organizations. good morning, mike. thanks so much for joining us. tell us abou