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Representing District 9, Ron Price was first elected to the Board of Trustees in May 1997. He was the first person to win a board seat while an employee of the Dallas ISD and was the youngest person to be elected to the Texas Association of School Boards. He is presently serving his third term as first vice president. He served two terms as secretary of the board and as president in 2006. He served as budget and finance chair (2003-2005), over a district budget $1.1 billion and $1.3 billion bond program. He has also served as personnel chair and education chair twice.
Price chaired the board’s soft drink committee, whose work was instrumental in obtaining new scoreboards for some district stadiums and the Herschel Forester Stadium and Field House softball complex.
Price lobbied the board to approve a districtwide student uniform policy, security cameras for district schools, and athletic tracks for high schools.
Price is a former instructor at Pearl C. Anderson Middle Learning Center and has served as a community liaison at Paul L. Dunbar Learning Center. He also served as a specialist in the Youth Action Center at James Madison High School.
Among his accomplishments, Price has held posts as president of the African American School Board Association for the metroplex and past vice president of the National Caucus of Black School Board Members. He was the first African American since 1910 to become the board secretary of the Dallas Independent School District. He is the founder of the National African American School Board Member Summit.
Price is past president of the National Young School Board Members Caucus. At their Sixth Annual Summit, held in October 2006, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the National African American School Board Member Council honored Price with the Founders Award for Excellence in Education and recognized him for being a national leader in education.
Price is past president of the Texas Caucus of Black School Board Members and the National Association of African American School Board Members and represents Dallas on the Texas Association of School Boards. He is past president of the National Caucus of Young School Board Members and the Metroplex African American School Board Members Association.
He was selected as one of 20 school board members to participate in a national leadership campaign forum dealing with AIDS/HIV in the nation's minority communities, received the Texas Association of Black School Educators Leadership Award, received the Key to the City of Corsicana, received the 2004 Chairman Award from the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and received the 2008 Child Care Advocate of the Year Award. Other awards include: The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance Educator of the Year Award, The National Sorority of the Phi Delta Kappa Education Award, Elite’s Man of the Year Award, NAACP Pillar of the Community Award, Recognition Award from the City of Dallas, received recognition from the State of Texas for community service and he is the only elected official in the nation to receive the Invisible Giant Award from the National Voters Right Museum in Selma, Alabama.
Price has been a trailblazer in his field. He was instrumental in changing the state law regarding the sale of alcohol near schools in Texas. He also is leading a national movement to pass laws that ban wearing sagging pants in public and to increase the number of early childhood programs in public schools. He served on a grand jury in October and November of 2005 and he presently serves on the board of the Police Athletic League (PAL).
He is the founder of the Pearl Guards and chairman of Young Brothers' United. Price is a member of the NAACP, National Alliance of Black School Educators, National Association of School Boards, Bethesda Lodge #168, Daniel Cross Elks Lodge #1578, and several other organizations. He hosted the District 9 Annual Teacher Appreciation Holiday Celebration, District 9 Teacher of the Year Luncheon, the Ron Price Cheerfest, and the Ron Price Track Meet.
Price attended Texas Southern University and Paul Quinn College, graduating with a B.S. in Criminal Justice. He has been mentioned in national publications such as Education Week, USA Today, Jet Magazine, Essence Magazine, and in about 70 to 100 newspapers nationwide. He also has been featured on NBC World News, Hannity and Colmes, Fox Good Morning, CNN, the BBC News, and Fox and Friends. |
