Schools
Paid to Innovate, 21 Neighborhood Schools Eye New Goals
Foster Elementary in Midway Hollow, Pershing Elementary in Preston Hollow, and 19 additional schools have received $50,000 in seed money to pursue innovation with an aim at increasing interest in the neighborhoods they serve.
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Laura Bush Foundation Awards $500K for Dallas ISD Libraries
Preston Hollow’s favorite former librarian has stepped up to the plate to help replenish the libraries of three Dallas ISD schools that were hit by an EF3 tornado last year.
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TEA Relaxes – Slightly – Rules on COVID Closures
If you’ve wondered if your district might opt to close altogether after Thanksgiving break because of the increasing COVID-19 infection rate, the state agency that has oversight of public education is not exactly leaping up to let that happen.
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State Faces Growing Demand to Cancel STAAR Again
Almost 70 state representatives have signed a letter directed at Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath, requesting either a cancellation of the STAAR test this year, or at least a promise to use it only diagnostically, and not for accountability ratings.
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Dallas ISD Names New Leadership Hires
Dallas ISD has looked from within and without for its three most recent leadership moves, it announced Nov. 13.
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Happenings on the Hill
Dallas Academy and SMU enjoy what academy leaders call as “win-win” arrangement.
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HPISD Trustees Talk COVID Protocols, Facilities
COVID-19 safety protocols were again a hot topic at a Highland Park ISD school board meeting this week.
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SMU Hosts Virtual Discussion with Angela Davis
SMU’s Office of Social Change and Intercultural Engagement and SMU Human Rights have a heavy-hitter lined up to speak about racial and social justice – Dr. Angela Davis.
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Student Achievements: Three to Celebrate
Boy Scouts with the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church-chartered Troop 577, tackled a project to help solitary bees. St. Mark’s School of Texas junior Spencer Burke (left) led the effort.
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Greenhill Teens Launch Students for Happiness
Greenhill School student Kelly Meng first founded Happiness Club with her friends to help classmates destress around tests and exams, but the pandemic exposed a need for something more.
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Student Achievements: Three to Celebrate
Want to spend 100-degree weather outside building a structure? A group of boys led by Boy Scout Nicholas Meadows of Highland Parks Troop 82 did just that.
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