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Ensuring that Dallas ISD offers minority businesses opportunities to market their goods and services to the district is the top mission for Annie Holmes-Partee, director of the district’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise Department (M/WBE). For two decades, Holmes-Partee has helped realize the district’s goal of including minority- and women-owned firms in purchasing and contracting for professional services and construction. Her M/WBE team provides training and guidance to vendors and district staff to help level the playing field in the competitive arena of product procurement. The Dallas Business Journal recently spotlighted Holmes-Partee’s efforts in naming her to its 2015 class of…

Forty-seven Dallas ISD schools and departments will showcase their environmental projects and programs with visitors during Earth Day Texas. The free, public event is set for April 24–26, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., at Fair Park. Students, their parents, and staff members are encouraged to visit the festival, which will aim to show how adopting sustainable products, practices and services can improve quality of life, save money and help the environment. The festival offers an action-packed collection of exhibits, entertainment and information relating to the environment. Among festival highlights: Featured speakers Shawna Coronado, green lifestyle author and blogger, and Beth Ann…

Skyline student Patricia Rios wrote this article Today is earth day, and it’s the largest environmental campaign in the world. Every year people demonstrate their support for environmental protection. The first Earth Day event originated on April 22, 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson. Skyline’s lead librarian, Heather Hornor, is in charge of this year’s Earth Week, April 20–24. “The main goal is to educate students about Earth Day and why we celebrate it,” Mrs. Hornor said. Skyline’s Green Team held an Earth Day activity, led by Captains Genesis Delgado, Evelyn Perez, and Kimberly Barraza. The Green Team is distributing wristbands made by students before school,…

A middle school team that has built an underwater robot is hoping to raise funds so they can make some waves at a national competition in Massachusetts. The nine inaugural members of the Stockard Robotics Club placed third in the Dallas Regional SeaPerch competition, which earned them a spot at the national championships in Dartmouth, Mass. Michelle Walaski, the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math teacher at L.V. Stockard Middle School, has set up a GoFundMe page to raise $10,000 to help fund the trip for the robotics club. The registration cutoff date is April 28. To win third in the…

Fifty-five graduating seniors from five Dallas ISD schools were recognized on Tuesday, April 21, for receiving 2015 State Fair of Texas Pete Schenkel Scholarship Awards. This marks the 23rd year of the Fair’s Youth Scholarship Program. The awards are named for a former chairman of the State Fair of Texas board. Students from the five high schools closest to the fairgrounds were eligible to apply. Each recipient will be awarded $6,000 per year, renewable for up to four years. Monserrat Moncada, a 2011 graduate of North Dallas High School and a State Fair scholarship recipient, gave her advice based on…

Three Dallas ISD schools are among the top 15 most challenging schools in the nation, according to a new report from the Washington Post. The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, and the Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School were, respectively, ranked as the third, fourth, and fifteenth most challenging U.S. school. Only one other school district —Jacksonville—had more than two schools ranked in the top 15. The Washington Post rankings are based on the number of college-level tests given at a…

As part of National Volunteer Month, we are recognizing those who do great work in helping out at different schools within the district. Here is a letter Daisy Perez, a student at Stockard Middle School, wrote to Ms. Estrada, a volunteer at the school.

Alumnos selectos de 12º grado de cada preparatoria integral y magnet de Dallas ISD, recibirán el compromiso de $2500 de beca, durante la Recepción Anual de Becas del Superintendente este martes en Emmet Conrad High School. Padres, directores de escuelas, consejeros y miembros de la Junta Escolar estarán presentes para felicitar a los 62 estudiantes seleccionados por los comités de becas de sus escuelas para recibir los premios según su necesidad, carácter, calificaciones, ensayos y recomendaciones. Este es el decimoquinto año del programa de becas del Superintendente, que ha otorgado más de 2 millones en becas desde su inicio. Las…

Serving tasty, nutritious meals to more than 150,000 students each day is no easy feat. Every school day, the district’s Food & Child Nutrition Services (FCNS) team is responsible for providing 46,000 breakfasts, 120,000 lunches, and 10,000 after-school snacks at more than 215 school sites—a gargantuan task by any standard. Dallas ISD boasts an award-winning food service team that has received state and national recognition for its innovative approach to child nutrition. The vanguard of the FCNS staff are the cafeteria workers—those who personally greet and serve students, and occasionally cajole them to eat their veggies along with the more coveted menu items…

Premiere music ensembles from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts are performing this week as part of The Grand Concert. The concerts happening April 21–22 will feature a variety of music styles. The lineup is: April 21: Meistersingers, Opera Ensemble, Piano, Symphony Orchestra, BTWHSPVA Jazz Singers, Pop Ensemble, R&B Ensemble April 22: Wind Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, Varsity Girls Choir, Junior Varsity Orchestra, Varsity Orchestra, Varsity Mixed Choir, Mariachi Pegasus, Latin American Ensemble, Jazz Combo I, Midi Ensemble The event is being held at the high school located at 2501 Flora St. Tickets to the concerts are $10.