News Briefs

Ensuring that Dallas ISD offers minority businesses opportunities to market their goods and services to the district is the top mission for Annie Holmes-Partee, director of the district’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise Department (M/WBE). For two decades, Holmes-Partee has helped realize the district’s goal of including minority- and women-owned firms in purchasing and contracting for professional services and construction. Her M/WBE team provides training and guidance to vendors and district staff to help level the playing field in the competitive arena of product procurement. The Dallas Business Journal recently spotlighted Holmes-Partee’s efforts in naming her to its 2015 class of…

Skyline student Patricia Rios wrote this article Today is earth day, and it’s the largest environmental campaign in the world. Every year people demonstrate their support for environmental protection. The first Earth Day event originated on April 22, 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson. Skyline’s lead librarian, Heather Hornor, is in charge of this year’s Earth Week, April 20–24. “The main goal is to educate students about Earth Day and why we celebrate it,” Mrs. Hornor said. Skyline’s Green Team held an Earth Day activity, led by Captains Genesis Delgado, Evelyn Perez, and Kimberly Barraza. The Green Team is distributing wristbands made by students before school,…

As part of National Volunteer Month, we are recognizing those who do great work in helping out at different schools within the district. Here is a letter Daisy Perez, a student at Stockard Middle School, wrote to Ms. Estrada, a volunteer at the school.

Serving tasty, nutritious meals to more than 150,000 students each day is no easy feat. Every school day, the district’s Food & Child Nutrition Services (FCNS) team is responsible for providing 46,000 breakfasts, 120,000 lunches, and 10,000 after-school snacks at more than 215 school sites—a gargantuan task by any standard. Dallas ISD boasts an award-winning food service team that has received state and national recognition for its innovative approach to child nutrition. The vanguard of the FCNS staff are the cafeteria workers—those who personally greet and serve students, and occasionally cajole them to eat their veggies along with the more coveted menu items…