News Briefs

The girls basketball regional quarterfinals and boys basketball bi-district games are this week! Here’s the schedule:

Jimmie Markham with the Naveen Jindal School of Management wrote this story.  Students, faculty and administrators from the Dallas Independent School District visited the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas on Dec. 5 to kick off the  Jindal Young Scholars Program, a new partnership between the school district and the Jindal School. Spearheaded by Dr. Hasan Pirkul, dean and Caruth Chair, the initiative was created to help “Stars Shine Brighter Here” by supporting the academic, social, and emotional development of Dallas ISD high school students and increase their chances of postsecondary success. Five Dallas ISD…

Dallas ISD will host special application workshops tonight at three magnet schools that are adding grades starting in the 2018-2019 school year. The workshops, which will help parents fill out applications for their child, will be 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21, at  J.P. Starks Math, Science and Technology Vanguard; Sidney Lanier Expressive Arts Vanguard; and Mark Twain Leadership Vanguard. All three schools, which have served students in grades 4-5, will add one grade each year until each serves grades 4-8 in 2021. The three magnet schools are housed within neighborhood schools. Learn more about these and other Dallas ISD magnets that are…

Olssen Fuentes, third-grader at Herbert Marcus Elementary School, will soon be granted with his wish of going shopping. That’s what the ten-year old asked for as a celebration of being cancer free for almost a year now. Fuentes underwent through chemotherapies for a few months as part of his battle with leukemia. The Make-A-Wish foundation surprised Fuentes at school on Feb. 15, along with his classmates, teachers and a family. When Fuentes goes on his shopping spree in a few weeks, he knows the first thing he wants to get: an iPad.