Dallas City Council, Manns Education Center, Infosys lawsuit and more.

Your Thursday morning roundup [Your Thursday morning roundup] June 22,  2017 By [Dennis Jansen]( Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. ☁️ Weather: [Mostly cloudy and warm](. High: 91° 🔎 Prefer the online view? [It's here](. The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge bridge and downtown Dallas skyline photographed on Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Dallas, TX. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News) $1 billion Budget Dallas City Council wants to spend its way out of gridlock By Tristan Hallman Dallas City Council members appear to have finally found a way to agree on the contents of an $800 November million bond package: [spending another $225 million](. City staff on Wednesday initially proposed throwing $125 million more at the bond. But council members still didn't like the way that staff had divvied up the projects. Eventually, in a straw vote, the council's majority supported spending another $100 million on top of that. Council member Adam McGough said the higher number is probably necessary to get a consensus because many districts have had to wait for projects and repairs for years. "We're in a situation where we have way too many needs and there's no way to get there," said Adam McGough. Earlier: Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings [welcomes new council members]( with call for unity. DART disputes: A Dallas Area Rapid Transit meeting Tuesday started as an effort to organize financing for a suburban commuter rail line, [but turned into a showdown between Dallas and the suburbs]( over which major project should be the greater priority. The billboard: A Texas man rented a billboard to make sure that Central Texans know exactly where he stands politically: "[The Russians didn't elect Trump. I did](." A security guard walks the halls at Manns Education Center in Dallas on June 21, 2017. The school board will vote this week on whether to close the school. (Lawrence Jenkins/Special Contributor) Manns Education Center Dallas ISD trustees to consider closing district's over-age middle school By Corbett Smith Dallas ISD is looking to close [a school for over-age middle school students](. On Thursday, before its regular monthly board meeting, DISD's board of trustees will hold a public hearing to consider immediately shuttering Barbara Manns Education Center. The school was designed to help middle school students who were two or more years older than most of their classmates and two years behind grade level. "It was just a program that didn't work as it was designed," Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said. "It was small and very expensive per student, but they didn't serve many students. The economies of scale didn't allow that school to be self-sufficient." Concerned parents: Mothers of transgender children joined held a panel discussion Wednesday at the Dallas Resource Center to remind North Texans that [real people are at the heart of the debate over the state's bathroom bill](. Campaign shooting: The husband of a former Fort Worth school board candidate will be in court next month [after shooting a dog while canvassing a neighborhood]( with his wife and daughters. The offices of Infosys, the giant Indian outsourcing company, in Plano, Texas. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times) Employment Dispute Reverse-discrimination lawsuit filed against Infosys in Plano By Karen Robinson-Jacobs Infosys, the India-based information technology consulting firm with an office in Plano, [is facing yet another reverse discrimination lawsuit]( asserting that it creates a hostile work environment for workers who are not from India or South Asia. Erin Green, a white former supervisor at Infosys, filed suit this week in the Eastern District of Texas in Sherman, alleging that he and black and white staffers on his team were denied raises and promotions, and that other "non-South Asian" workers were berated by South Asian company officials. In filing suit, Green joined a list of Infosys job applicants and employees who have filed suit in courts in several U.S. jurisdictions arguing reverse discrimination. Demographer: Texas' future is '[increasingly tied to its minority populations](.' Merger objections: A group of senators sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, highlighting their objections to Dallas-based telecom giant AT&T's proposed acquisition of Time Warner [and urging him to reject the deal if it harms consumers](. Corporate Raiders: [Texas Tech Accelerator fuels 7 startups](. Business obit: Dennis Stone, 65, former UT Southwestern physician and researcher, [died Saturday at his Dallas home](. Family finance: A 'good wife' who secretly got her family $40,000 in debt [shares how she climbed back to even](. (David Woo/Staff Photographer) Photo of the Morning Three-week-old giraffe calf Tsavo runs in front of his mother Katie, left, and uncle Auggie, right, at the Dallas Zoo on Wednesday. [This was Tsavo's public debut]( in the giraffe feeding yard, where he will now be making regular appearances. around the site Crime highlights - Katy Trail: Cedar Hill man accused of [masturbating near the Katy Trail]( where children could see him. - Catfishing: Dallas man gets 20 years in prison after using fake Facebook account [to get girls to send nude photos](. - Bexar County: Baby-killer nurse suspected in dozens of deaths [faces new murder charge in 1981 slaying](. - Parker County: Reno mom was on Facebook [while baby drowned in tub](, officials say - Arlington: [A body was found]( at an Arlington landfill Wednesday afternoon. - Study: Officers who are divorced, in debt [more likely to use deadly force](, UT-Dallas study finds. - Duncanville: Police looking for 2 youths who shot clerk [while robbing Duncanville hotel](. Finally... A viral Waxahachie prank It took a couple of weeks before Marissa Hooper's mom noticed that the people in the family photos [looked suspiciously like her Marissa's Chihuahua](, Dixie. 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. 💖 Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. 📧 Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [djansen@dallasnews.com](mailto:djansen@dallasnews.com?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback). STAY CONNECTED WITH US  [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( [Tumblr]( [Google]( [Ello]( [Ello](  [OTHER NEWSLETTERS]( [SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS]( [Unsubscribe](  |  [Manage Preferences](  |  [Privacy Policy](  |  [Contact](  |  [Advertise]( You received this message because you signed up for this Dallas Morning News newsletter or it was forwarded to you. 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