News Briefs

The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation and Niagara Cares volunteers renovated Lincoln High School’s weight room and auxiliary weight room, added new flooring to the faculty fitness space, and cleaned, purchased and assembled new equipment and storage throughout all three fitness areas at a cost of $75,000. Additionally, they purchased technology and furniture to equip STEM Labs at Boude Storey Middle School (valued at $30,663), Sarah Zumwalt Middle School ($30,663), and W.M. Young Elementary School ($22,117).  Workers and staff at Lincoln and Storey Boude assembled some of the new equipment.

This past weekend, 22 schools competed in the Districtwide Online Academic Decathlon Meet. Of those participating campuses, School of Science and Engineering and School for the Talented & Gifted received the highest team points in their respective divisions: medium and small. With the theme Water: A Most Essential Resource, more than 200 secondary students were tested in several areas including music, art, literature, math, economics, and social science. The top 15 students in each division will receive gold medals. (See top schools’ scores and gold medalist winners in the charts below.) All schools participating in the Dallas ISD Academic Decathlon program…

Elementary and high school debate workshops were held Saturday, Oct. 23, with 500 students in attendance. During the morning session, the topics for fifth graders preparing for their February debate tournament included Making the Case: Understanding the Act of Debating; Refutation: Understanding the Other Side; and Public Speaking, A Matter of Style and Presentation. The afternoon session included a live debate demonstration with Sudie Williams TAG student debaters. The sixth graders participated in the district’s fifth-grade debate program last year. At the end of the workshop, students received their February tournament debate topic: Tablets vs Textbooks. Secondary students got to…

On Oct. 22, 2021, Dallas ISD started accepting offers for the purchase of four district properties through two Request for Bids. The Request for Bid (RFB) packages are available on the Procurement Services Department webpage under the “Supplier Opportunities” link.  The properties for sale were declared surplus to the district’s needs by the Board of Trustees. The deadline for submitting purchase offers is Dec. 3, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. The opportunities are: Sale of Surplus Properties Sale or Exchange of Surplus Properties