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Emir Price is making Dallas ISD history as the first U.S. Presidential Scholar from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Theatre Program. A national ceremony in Washington, D.C., in June will honor Price and 160 other outstanding American high school seniors named Presidential Scholars. While Price appreciates the national recognition, his life goal is much more local: he wants to elevate Black theatre in Dallas. Price’s mother, Guinea Bennett-Price, is a Booker T. Washington HSPVA teacher and co-founder/co-artistic director of Soul Rep Theatre Company, which provides transformative Black theatre in Dallas. Price, who will…

The W.H. Adamson High School Alumni Association recently held its 18th Annual All-Class Reunion at the school. Located in Oak Cliff, Adamson High School is the oldest continuously-active high school in Dallas ISD. On the Friday prior to the reunion, the Adamson Alumni 2018 Charity Golf Classic was held at the Prairie Lakes Golf Course. Saturday’s all-class reunion included activities for all former students, including the reunion program, induction of outstanding alumni and faculty into the Adamson Hall of Honor, tours of the school, and a luncheon in the school cafeteria catered by the favorite Norma’s Restaurant. Oak Cliff High School…

The Dallas ISD Social Studies hosted the 2018 Model UN Conference at Ellis Davis Field House on May 1. Students represented nine countries and discussed resolution issues on 10 of the top literacy and technology issues across the world. The students also created table displays for their country, including facts, information and food samples. Sixth-graders from these schools participated: Piedmont G.L.O.B.A.L. Academy Rosemont Middle School J.L. Long Middle School Raul Quintanilla Senior Middle School Zan Wesley Holmes Middle School Thomas C. Marsh Middle School D.A. Hulcy Middle SChool Students from W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy and Alex W. Spence Middle School…

Irene Aguilar was printing out a form at Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School when she heard a substitute teacher at the school fall to the floor in the front office. The teacher was unconscious. Aguilar, the school’s office manager, quickly called School Nurse Beata Fik and Counselor Amparo Guzman. The skills they learned in their Heartsaver First Aid/CPR/AED training kicked in. They called 911, and after using the school’s defibrillator and performing CPR, the substitute regained a pulse. Aguilar, Fik and Guzman then used CPR skills to support the teacher until the ambulance arrived. “It was just amazing how everyone played a…