News Briefs

Credit Union of Texas hosted a Reality Fair at Lang Middle School and W.T. White High School to teach students about budgeting. The event had students create budgets based on their salary after they graduate college. Multiple students said the event was “eye opening.” The above video gives an inside look into the event at White High School. On May 20, the Credit Union of Texas held an event at Lang Middle School. The Volunteer and Partnership team issued a statement thanking the Credit of Union of Texas for supporting financial literacy in Dallas ISD schools.

Kimberly Robertson, a teacher at Paul L. Dunbar Learning Center, wrote the following essay about her participation in the “On the Farm STEM Experience.” In very late March, I was among a select group of 19 educators (out of 200 applicants) to participate in the “On the Farm STEM Experience” sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) in Nashville, Tennessee. As a participant, I received a $2,000 stipend, room and board at the Sheraton Music City Hotel, tour transportation and educational materials. The overall purpose of this experience was to explore STEM applications of beef production and ranching. And what…

Two new Dallas ISD trustees and one who was re-elected in the May 7 elections were sworn in at the board’s regular meeting on Thursday, May 26. New members are Jaime Resendez, District 4; and Audrey Pinkerton, District 7. Trustee Lew Blackburn of District 5 was re-elected. The board also selected new officers: President, Blackburn; 1st Vice President, Miguel Solis (District 8); 2nd Vice President, Joyce Foreman (District 6); and Secretary, Dan Micciche (District 3). The District 2 seat remains vacant until a runoff election on June 18 between the two candidates who got the most votes, but not a…

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…