News Briefs

Each three-pointer the Dallas Mavericks scored on their home court this season will go beyond the scoreboard to represent a new tree on a Dallas ISD campus or area park. It’s the fifth consecutive year the team has conducted its “Threes for Threes” service project. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Arborilogical Services Inc. partners with the Mavericks to donate, plant and care for the trees over the next few years. The project was on track to plant its 1750th tree at a school this season. On Tuesday, April 7, volunteers from PwC and the Dallas Mavericks planted several trees at Edward…

Dallas Morning News did a report on the Classrooms Without Borders exchange program, which has brought 20 teachers from Mexico to live and and work with DFW-area teachers. The story focuses on one of the Classrooms Without Borders teachers at Stevens Park Elementary. Click here to read the full story. Photo courtesy Dallas Morning News.

Rachel Franz volunteers at William Lipscomb Elementary where her daughter, Claire, attends the second grade. Franz is committed to the school and believes it helps her daughter to be committed to her school as well. Franz is on the PTA and helps with the school’s Site-Based Decision-Making Team.

Students from Wilmer Hutchins High School’s culinary program cooked breakfast on WFAA News 8 Daybreak to preview an upcoming competition hosted by Baylor Health’s Diabetes Health and Wellness Institute. The students are competing in the Cup Cake Wars competition happening April 9 at the Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St. Click here to view the full report from WFAA.