News Briefs

WFAA recently reported on how schools across Dallas ISD are working to make sure students are college and career ready. Specifically, the schools’ focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.), which includes topics from robotics to calculus, is helping prepare students for a successful future. “It’s where the future is going to go,” Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said in the WFAA report. “Our students need to be prepared for that.” Click here to read the full story from WFAA.

Students from the Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School are participating in a panel tonight addressing child sexual exploitation and trafficking in Texas. The panel will also include Texas State Representative Linda Koop; Judge Harlin Hale; Judge Lena Levario; Assistant District Attorney Brooke Grona-Robb; Melissa Miles of the City Attorney’s office; FBI Special Agent Deborah Michaels; and Lisa Shedden with the Department of Justice. The panel is from 6–7:30 p.m. at the George W. Bush Institute auditorium at SMU, 2943 SMU Boulevard. The Rangel students are participating in the panel after learning about child sexual exploitation and trafficking through a…

Graduate students at the University of Texas at Dallas speech pathology program are helping students at several Dallas ISD schools as part of pilot program aimed at closing the ‘vocabulary gap.’ The vocabulary gap is the “worrisome difference between the language skills of poor kids and their more affluent peers,” reports CBS DFW. Click here to view the CBS DFW story on how this unique partnership is helping  Dallas ISD students.

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was a special guest speaker for the Class of 2016 at Dallas ISD’s W.W. Samuell High School. The Dallas Weekly has the full story on Johnson’s appearance here.