Well, it’s all over but the hollering, which will probably never end when it comes to DISD and educating children and spending money. But despite a spate of "bad news" stories right before the election, and despite an unfinished and delayed audit and continuing difficulty getting student test scores up to state and national levels, DISD has another $1.3 billion to spend on improving schools. That’s how much money voters approved, by roughly a 55-45 vote Saturday, in the latest bond package. Lots of new schools, improvements to existing schools, are what we voted for, and presumably that’s what we’ll get over the next five to 10 years. That, along with what we can only hope will be another five to 10 years of Michael Hinojosa, assuming he continues to do his best to clean up the mess that has been building at DISD for the past 30 years. Because that’s about how long it will take to completely remake the school district and hopefully win back the public confidence — and corporate financial support — the district is going to need to turn things around. The DMN’s story quoted neighborhood resident and bond supporter Craig Reynolds appropriately summing up the past six months of discussion: "Even as we went out to the various town halls, we had a lot of people venting, but they were venting about a lot of stuff that wasn’t about the bond."