News Briefs

Graduation season kicked off yesterday, and there is plenty to celebrate about this senior class. For starters, Dallas ISD’s graduating class has received more than $104 million in college scholarships. Also, more than 7,500 seniors are expected to graduate this year And that’s just the start of this week’s good news! Catch up on many more of great things that happened in the above 108-second video, or read below. A one-stop shop for families District officials signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Community Outreach Center to transform Frazier Elementary, which closed in 2012, into a one-stop…

Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School celebrated Senior Signing Day, May 19, 2016. The young ladies announced their college commitments in an assembly held for their family, friends and community. Watch the above video to learn more.

The South Oak Cliff Feeder Pattern hosted their First Annual Elementary Robotics Competition on May 14. Seven of the eight elementary schools within the feeder pattern participated. The teams had to build a robot that was programmed to perform a specific function. The winner was the Longhorn Robotics Team from R.L. Thornton Elementary. The Dallas ISD STEM department contributed the robots and volunteers across the feeder pattern made the event possible.

Greenville Avenue Area Business Association (GAABA) merchants this week presented $15,000 in scholarships to nine seniors from North Dallas, Conrad and Woodrow Wilson high schools. Former GAABA president Jorge Levy, owner of Desperado’s Restaurant on Greenville Avenue, spoke proudly of the association’s decision seven years ago to fund student scholarships with proceeds from its two annual fundraisers. “To me, education is very, very important,” Levy said. “I barely finished high school, but because of economic problems, I couldn’t continue. One of the most important things in life is education. I suggested supporting it when I was association president, and here we…