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At its May 25 meeting, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees recognized several student-athletes and their coaches for achievement this year. Marcus Garrett, a senior at Skyline High School, is the 2016-2017 Gatorade Texas Boys Basketball Player of the Year. The award recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court. Garrett, who will attend the University of Kansas on a full basketball scholarship, is now in the running for the prestigious Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year award. The David W. Carter High School…

Spend the next 93 seconds catching up on many of the great things that happened across the district this week! Watch the above video, or read below, to learn more. Model United Nations More than 400 sixth-graders from 13 Dallas ISD schools participated in the annual Model United Nations Conference at Ellis Davis Field House. (Watch this) Robotics champions The Sunset High School robotics team won the 2017 UIL robotics state championships in the First Tech Challenge Division. (Learn more) Former first lady reads to students Three nationally known children’s book authors, including former first lady Laura Bush, read to students at Thomas Tolbert Elementary. (Read this) Speeding to Read…

The volunteers and partners who donated time, services and products were honored in April. On Thursday, May 25, it was time for the campus-based volunteer and partnership coordinators to be honored for their hard work. A luncheon to honor those staff members was sponsored by Credit Union of Texas and conducted at The Music Hall at Fair Park. The Partnership Coordinators receiving honors are: Karen Chandler, Stonewall Jackson Elementary School Monica Santillan, Daniel Webster Elementary School Katie Albritton, Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School The Volunteer Coordinators receiving honors are: Jeanne Juneau, Dan D. Rogers Elementary School Tonye Melton,…

Sydney Gutwein, a seventh‐grade student from William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Talented and Gifted, is among the students being honored by the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) for their exceptional scores on the ACT or SAT. Gutwein was recognized at the Grand Recognition Ceremony on May 22 at Duke University.. “We are extremely proud to recognize our remarkably talented students who have demonstrated key aspects of their academic potential by achieving scores on the ACT or SAT approximately equal to the 90th percentile for college‐bound high school seniors taking these tests,” said Shawna Young, executive director of Duke…