Questions arise about DISD candidate.

Publication: The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Tawnell D. Hobbs

Mar. 29--On the eve of a meeting scheduled today -- when the Dallas school board could announce finalists for the district's superintendent job -- questions started emerging about ties that one likely candidate and two trustees have with a nonprofit organization.

Spring ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, one of two veteran educators whose names surfaced as candidates for the DISD superintendent job, serves on the board of directors for the Texas Business and Education Coalition. According to its Web site, the nonprofit association brings business and education leaders together to improve the Texas public school system.

Dallas Independent School District Trustee Jack Lowe serves on the coalition's board, and Trustee Ken Zornes, who announced his plans to leave the DISD board in May, has taken a paid position with the Austin-based organization.

Some DISD trustees said Monday they did not...

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