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Mayor’s Back to School Fair to celebrate 20th anniversary
0This summer, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and dozens of community partners and organizations will celebrate a major milestone in one of the city’s most popular and beneficial school-readiness programs. The 20th anniversary of the Mayor’s Back to School Fair, presented by Walmart and Sam’s Club, will be Friday, Aug. 5, from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., at the Automobile and Centennial buildings at Fair Park. “We’ve come a long way since Mayor Ron Kirk launched the first Mayor’s Back To School Fair back in the 90s,” said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. “There were about a thousand people in attendance and…
This Week in Dallas ISD: June 23 edition
0Scholarships for North Texas students, a report detailing a remarkable turnaround at some of the district’s most struggling schools, and talented dancers working on their craft were three of the highlights from another great week in Dallas ISD. Watch this above video—or read below—to learn more! Stars on the Rise The Stars on the Rise Scholarship fund announced this week it is providing $2.5 million in scholarships to 296 graduating seniors from North Texas. (Read this) Remarkable gains at ACE schools An End of Year report for Kindergarten through second grade students in Dallas ISD’s ACE program showed drastic improvement…
ACE schools generate big reading achievement gains for youngest learners
0The number of kindergarten through second grade students reading at or above grade level increased by 30 percent at the Dallas Independent School District’s seven Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) initiative schools. The dramatic increase is just one of several data points Dallas ISD leaders are pointing to as measures of success following the first year of the ACE initiative, an effort to provide underperforming schools with with strong leaders and teams of highly effective teachers. “We are extremely encouraged with the end of year reading scores for our students in kinder through second grade. We know reading on grade level…
Nearly 800 new collegiate academy students attend two-week summer boot camp
0Nearly 800 students from Dallas ISD’s seven new collegiate academies and Pathways to Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) got first-hand college experience at a two-week summer boot camp. The Texas Success Initiative boot camp saw the students visit the respective college campus they will attend as students in Dallas ISD’s new collegiate academies. The collegiate academies and P-TECH will let students, at no cost to them, earn up to 60 hours of college credit or an associate degree while still in high school. Key staff at the colleges met the students, who also got their college ID numbers and…