News Briefs

Each November, Dallas ISD employees join with United Way of Metropolitan Dallas to positively impact families across the area by participating in an employee giving campaign. Through payroll deductions or one-time donations, employees help support programs that make a difference in the lives of parents and children by providing much-needed assistance that can be life-changing. The funds raised help support programs in Dallas ISD schools such as the Academic Success Project Learn, where after-school activities reinforce skills and knowledge learned during class; Mercy Street Mentoring Program, a long-term effort designed to place caring mentors in the life of every student…

WFAA-TV Channel 8 spent a few moments with members of the Sunset High School Bisonettes drill team, as they turn to the community to help raise funds for an upcoming performance in Hawaii. The 27 member squad has been invited to perform during the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade, Dec. 7. See view that broadcast, click here. The Bisonette’s have set up a GoFundMe account that any one may donate toward. The team needs to raise $50,000 in order to perform and represent the only school from Texas in the parade. Their deadline to collect all money is Nov. 14. Want to donate? Click…

Spurred by a strong response from the community, the Dallas Independent School District will extend the deadline for its Public School Choice Community Survey through midnight Wednesday, Nov. 12. More than 3,000 responses have been received in the last month about potential choice schools and programs through a survey offered by the Dallas Independent School District. Meanwhile, the district is gearing up for its next big push toward opening 35 additional public choice schools and programs by 2020. Since Sept. 24, there have been more than 2,400 responses in English, and another 800 in Spanish to Dallas ISD’s first-ever Public…