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Dallas ISD serves more than 211,000 meals on second day of grab-and-go service
0Dallas ISD served more than 211,000 meals to nearly 24,000 students on the second day of bulk grab-and-go meal service on March 26. Each meal package given to students had breakfast, lunch and dinner for three days. Starting next week, Seagoville High School and E.D. Walker Middle School will no longer offer meal service, while Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa Elementary School will start providing grab-and-go bulk meals. Cigarroa Elementary is located near Francisco “Pancho” Medrano Middle School, which saw some of the highest demand for meal service in the first week. The bulk grab-and-go meals are distributed on Mondays and Thursdays…
Dallas ISD urges families to participate in the 2020 Census count
0North Texans and the nation have received invitations in the mail from the U.S. Census Bureau to participate in the 2020 Census, a count of all the individuals living in the U.S. The census questionnaire asks each household to answer a few basic questions about everyone living in the home, including young children. Responses to the questionnaire are required by law, and all answers are confidential. The questionnaire does not ask about citizenship status. Residents can respond to the census online, by phone or by mail. Because census data helps provide vital community services to residents of Dallas County and…
Trustees approve purchase of more than 10,000 hotspots for students to help close digital divide
0To help close the digital divide, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved up to $2.5 million to purchase more than 10,000 hotspots to ensure secondary students have Wi-Fi access while learning from home. Survey responses from 18,000 Dallas ISD families showed that about 30 percent of district households don’t have Internet access. Dallas ISD Chief Technology Officer Jack Kelanic said the mobile hotspots–which provide access to high-speed Internet–are a near-term solution to support secondary students in successfully learning from home. The devices enable students to access online instructional resources and the Internet in general, while also including security…
Trustees unanimously approve granting extended emergency leave for all active district employees
0The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved granting extended emergency leave for all active salaried and hourly employees, allowing them to continue receiving their normal paychecks while schools are closed indefinitely. Trustees approved the extended emergency leave during its March 26 board meeting. Go here to learn more about the extended emergency leave.