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Show and Tell: 8 great things happening in Dallas ISD (Nov. 18 edition)
0Great things are happening in Dallas ISD schools every day. Show and Tell is a weekly feature on The Hub that rounds up some of the news happening across the district into one place. If you have any story ideas for Show and Tell, email thehub@dallasisd.org. Hockaday students, staff volunteer across feeder to support literacy Hockaday students and teachers arrived on campuses throughout the Thomas Jeffeson High School feeder last Thursday to support literacy projects at four elementary schools—Saldivar, Knight, Burnet, and Field. Hockaday is one of several private partners in the P3 Network, in which all TJ Feeder elementary schools participate.…
Why the Dallas ISD bond isn’t projected to raise tax rates
0The approved Dallas ISD bond program will provide new schools, facility improvements across the district, and support for growing programs. Click here for an interactive map detailing the proposed projects. The $1.6 billion bond program is also not expected to raise tax rates. To find out why the bond isn’t expected to raise tax rates, The Hub asked the Dallas ISD finance department to learn more. In short, the projected stable tax rate for the proposed bond is based on four factors: The growth in the district’s tax base The reduction of the district’s existing debt Historically low interest rates…
Event celebrates progress made under district’s ACE program (video)
0A special event this month spotlighted and celebrated the work taking place to transform some of Dallas ISD’s most challenging schools under the Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) program. The seven ACE schools are benefitting from being staffed by proven principals and effective teachers in a framework that allows them to focus on students’ needs. The event on Nov. 12 was at Billy Earl Dade Middle School, and recognized the hard work of the staff at Dade, Thomas Edison and Sarah Zumwalt middle schools; and Annie Webb Blanton, Roger Q. Mills, Elisha M. Pease and Umphrey Lee elementary schools. “With the…
Meetings to discuss proposed attendance boundary changes
0Dallas ISD is hosting two community meetings this week to discuss proposed attendance boundary changes that could impact two sets of schools. A meeting is scheduled for Tuesday from 6–7 p.m. regarding proposed attendance boundary changes of Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa, M.D.; Julian T. Saldivar; Tom W. Field; David G. Burnet; and Stephen C. Foster elementary schools for the 2016-2017 school year. The proposed attendance boundary changes are in response to the opening of Jose “Joe” May Elementary School next year. Tuesday’s meeting will be held at Francisco F. “Pancho” Medrano Middle School, 9815 Brockbank Dr. Meanwhile, the district is also hosting…