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Students from Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, Lincoln, Madison, Woodrow Wilson, and North Dallas high schools can apply for the State Fair of Texas’ Pete Schenkel Scholarships. Honoring its past Chairman Pete Schenkel each year, the State Fair of Texas awards multiple $6,000 college scholarships to selected applicants from Fair Park-area high schools in Dallas ISD. The application deadline is Feb. 15. Go here to learn more and apply.

Representing District 9 (South Dallas and parts of Downtown Dallas, Pleasant Grove, Deep Ellum, Uptown, and East Dallas), Bernadette Nutall was elected to the Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees in December 2009. Nutall earned a Bachelor of Arts in business management from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. She received a Certificate of Competence Training Program in instructional leadership from the University of North Texas in Denton. She also attended the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 Summer Changes Everything National Conference at Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning. Nutall was a community liaison at Dallas ISD from…

Join us 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, for a Dallas ISD PREP U Super Saturday event at Jubilee Park & Community Center, 917 Bank St. There will be free health screenings, immunizations and flu shots; food and fun; and a showcase of the district’s School Choice options; and more. Don’t miss it!

The Dallas Zoo recently visited Preston Hollow Elementary to present various animals to the students. Dallas City Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates helped bring the program to the school.