District caps successful first week of classes

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By Messaging and Marketing on September 4, 2014 Inside Dallas ISD

With Week One in the rearview mirror, the Dallas ISD has many successes to celebrate surrounding the start of the 2014-2015 school year.

Staffing

One of the largest successes was starting the school year with 10,600 qualified teachers. This year, the Dallas ISD made history by filling 99.9 percent of the district’s teaching positions before the first day of school. Human Capital Management’s focused efforts on recruiting and hiring placed a teacher in all but 14 classrooms across the district at the start of the school year.

Call Center

Operators for Dallas ISD Connect, the district’s call center, ended the first week of school having fielded more than 8,500 calls about transportation, enrollment and other district-related questions from parents and community members.

Enrollment

School staffs welcomed 143,552 students back to school on the first day. By the end of the first week of school, enrollment rose to 156,187 students.

Messaging and Marketing

Marketing Services is responsible for communicating internally to more than 20,000 Dallas ISD employees and externally with the greater Dallas community through publications, marketing and advertising, e-newsletters, social media and photography.