Schools
Student Achievements: Five To Celebrate
Collin Chon, a fifth-grader at Greenhill School, won Best of Show in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) annual Student Art Contest. This year’s theme: Everyday Heroes Ride DART.
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For the First Time, And the Last Time
The graduation ceremony for Hillcrest High School started with a poignant — and a little startling — pronouncement by principal Joseph Sotello.
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Congratulations, Class of 2021
After a pandemic forced extensive changes to many graduation ceremonies last year, a renewed hope that the city turned a corner was showcased in a full slate of in-person graduations that looked a lot like normal this summer.
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Student Achievements: Five To Celebrate
The SMU Spirit squad placed first in the Game Day D1 category at the 2021 NCA and NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Thomas Jefferson Seniors Slay ‘Dragons’ to Graduate
No other Dallas ISD graduating class this year could claim a tornado, a winter storm, and a pandemic as their hurdles, but the seniors of Thomas Jefferson said those things were never excuses.
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Congratulations, Highland Park High School Class of 2021
After a year of social distancing, the Highland Park High School class of 2021 finally gathered, celebrated, and walked the stage at Moody Coliseum.
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Winning HPISD Poets Share Their Inspirations
As one of the judges of the Highland Park ISD Elementary Poetry School Writing Contest, I have the pleasure to read the poems of the district’s burgeoning writers.
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W.T. White Graduates Class of 2021 in ‘Strangest Year’
Graduation may have been a limited crowd, and might have been a little later than usual, but the Class of 2021 at W.T. White High School can check one more milestone off the list of milestones that happened during a very strange senior year.
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Dallas ISD Graduations Kick Off Friday
It may have been a year fraught with frustrations and uncertainty, but Dallas ISD seniors — unlike last year — will at least have in-person graduation ceremonies.
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HPISD: No Virtual Instruction Next School Year
As more people get vaccinated against COVID-19 and plans are underway for the upcoming 2021-2022 school year, Highland Park ISD announced Tuesday that virtual instruction won’t be offered next school year.
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The Book They Blamed
Anastasia Higginbotham had no idea that her book had caused such an uproar that it was blamed for legislation passed by the Texas legislature, thousands of miles away from her home base in New York.
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