News Briefs

The W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy boys baseball team are the middle school district champs! The Greiner team beat J.L. Long Middle School in the final. “This team would come to practice and work hard every day. We would work on mistakes we had made in the previous game in order to prepare us for the next game,” said Coach Wayne Pridgett. “The team understood that we all must be prepared and working together as a team, so they would put in the hard work every practice.”

Students at Dallas ISD’s J.J. Rhoads Learning Center were inspired and encouraged by a visit from Miss Texas Margana Wood on Thursday, May 10. She has also recently visited other district schools. Wood highlighted her anti-bullying platform by using the word “SMART” to teach students what to do when they see bullying. S is for speak up; M is for mean kids are not the cool kids; A is for apologize when you hurt someone’s feelings; R is for respecting differences; and T is for teamwork. Five teachers served as pageant contestants and answered mock interview questions, which Wood called…

Fifth-graders at Dallas ISD’s J.P. Starks Math, Science and Technology Vanguard participated in “Lemonade Day” on Saturday, May 5. The goal of Lemonade Day is to inspire today’s children to become tomorrow’s business leaders, social advocates, community volunteers and forward-thinking citizens – one lemonade stand at a time. Learn more about the regional effort here.

The election for the District 9 seat on the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees is headed to a runoff after no candidate received at least 50 percent of the vote on May 5. Incumbent Bernadette Nutall and Justin Henry are the candidates in the runoff election for the seat that represents South Dallas and parts of Downtown Dallas, Pleasant Grove, Deep Ellum, Uptown and East Dallas. The runoff election is on June 16.