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TEA and Texas Department of State Health Services launching a new COVID-19 testing project for remainder of school year
0The Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) are launching a new COVID-19 testing project for the remainder of the school year. Dallas ISD is working to transfer all testing materials and train test administrators in the coming weeks. All testing for students and staff will be put on pause while this transition takes place. In the meantime, CVS locations and Parkland Hospital at Ellis Davis offer free COVID-19 testing.
United Way campaign kicks off to raise money that benefits district schools
0Dallas ISD’s annual employee giving campaign, in collaboration with the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and benefiting the Dallas Education Foundation, started this week with a goal of raising $150,000. The district’s charity of choice, the Dallas Education Foundation, is the philanthropic arm of Dallas ISD, and in 2020 provided over $3 million in funding that supported grants for teachers, campus needs, programming, technology, and project Dream Big—use code E108456 to give to the DEF. If every employee gives at least $10, Dallas ISD will reach the $150,000 giving goal by the Dec. 17 deadline. You can also wear jeans…
Career Institute student landed life-changing internship with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
0Xavier Martinez’s very first job was working as an engineering apprentice for a major U.S. aerospace company. The Sunset High School junior found a passion for electrical engineering and the aviation industry after joining the Charmaine & Robert Price Career Institute and spending the summer working for Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation at Love Field Airport. Dallas ISD manages three career institutes – each linked to a traditional Dallas ISD high school and offering specific courses in different career pathways. Upon completion of each pathway course, students can earn industry-based certifications, become workforce-ready for high-skill, high-paying, high-demand jobs, and gain professional experience…
TAG students receive Presidential Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award
0Isabelle and Katherine Adams are not your average high school students. These sisters, a senior and a sophomore, respectively, at School for the Talented and Gifted, are co-CEOs of their own nonprofit, co-authors of their own book, and now co-recipients–the first teenagers ever–of the Presidential Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award. Isabelle and Katherine started their nonprofit, Paper for Water, in 2011 at just eight and five years old when they learned that girls in developing countries often did not go to school because they hauled water all day and that a child died every 15 seconds from unclean water. Wanting…