News Briefs

The road to stardom is set to begin for Dallas Independent School District students heading to San Antonio to audition for NBC’s reality television series America’s Got Talent. The students, performing as the group Y.G.B. Artists, have been invited to showcase their talent for the show’s judges. The group, which includes a student from Forney, Texas, includes: Terrence Dean Jr. – W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy Harper Jones – W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy Erica Johnson – Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Jared Shears – David W. Carter High School Jada Thomas – Booker…

Ford Motor Company Fund helped launch their Ford Driving Dreams Tour today at Molina and Spruce High School today. This is the second year of the partnership which encourages staying in school while energizing our students about their career after high school. Scholarships from the N. Texas Ford dealers fund will be administered by the Stars on the Rise program. The deadline is March 27 and students can apply at www.gdhcc.com.

Shareefah Nadfir Mason, an eighth-grade U.S. History teacher at Boude Storey Middle School, has earned The Tom and Betty Lawrence American History Teacher Award from The Sons of the American Revolution. She received the award and a $300 prize during a ceremony on Jan. 10 at the Presbyterian Village North Retirement Center.   The Tom and Betty Lawrence American History Teacher Award recognizes an individual whose outstanding instruction on the era of the Revolutionary War demonstrates exceptional accomplishments in the classroom. The winner receives a trip to Freedoms Foundation Summer Teacher Graduate Workshop at Valley Forge, Penn.