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Trustee Bernadette Nutall will host a State of District 9 Community Meeting starting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, at James Madison High School. Parents and community members living in District 9 are encouraged to attend. The district encompasses south Dallas, parts of Downtown Dallas, Pleasant Gove, Deep Ellum Uptown and East Dallas. Elementary schools: Blair, Burleson, Callejo, Douglass, Dunbar, Gonzalez, Guzick, Ireland, MLK, Mata, Rhoads, Rice, Rowe, San Jacinto, Silberstein, Starks, Tatum and Urban Park. Middle schools: Comstock, Dade, Piedmont GLOBAL, Ann Richards and Lang. High schools: Evening Academy, Lincoln, Madison, Rangel, Skyline, Booker T. Washington. Madison High School…

Trustee Lew Blackburn makes an all-star difference in District 5. Elected to the board in June of 2001, Blackburn leads his district of Oak Lawn, West Dallas, Wilmer, Hutchins and portions of East Oak Cliff. Blackburn was born in Fort Worth, where he attended elementary school. After moving to Dallas, he attended Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School and graduated from Franklin D. Roosevelt High School. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and a Master’s in Educational Administration from Texas A&M University-Commerce, and a Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin. A career educator, Dr. Blackburn…

Do you have a student in a Dallas ISD elementary school? Have you signed them up for the Kids Teaching Kids 21-Day Healthy Eating Challenge? Well, what are you waiting for! Medical City Children’s Hospital and the Dallas Restaurant Association have partnered with Dallas area high school culinary students who participate in Texas ProStart to create a cookbook full of healthy snack options that elementary students can assemble on their own. The recipes, made with easily accessible healthy ingredients, are designed to get young students in the habit of reaching for healthy snack options after school. If successful, these habits…

Trustee Jaime Resendez is leading the charge to make District 4 an outstanding team. Elected to the board in May of 2016, this graduate of Skyline High School represents Southeast Dallas, Seagoville and Balch Springs. Resendez is a U.S. Army combat veteran and attorney licensed to practice law by the State Bar of Texas and before the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas. The son of Mexican immigrants, Resendez enlisted in the U.S. Army as an engineer before high school graduation and served for eight years, including a yearlong tour of duty in Baghdad, Iraq. A fluent Spanish-speaker,…