News Briefs

This school year, the Dallas Independent School District is piloting a program to ensure more than 3,000 special education students travel on the right bus to the right location, every time. The new Dallas Pass, also known as D-Pass for short, program is specifically geared toward students with disabilities who receive transportation services via special education bus routes. Each student is provided a specially designed electronic card that will be scanned by a card reader as they enter or exit the school bus. That data will be maintained by the district’s transportation provider, Dallas County Schools, and accessed to verify…

On Thursday, Oct. 29, Dallas ISD students participated in a hands-on interactive competition designed to introduce high school age girls to the many career opportunities available to them in the commercial real estate industry. The program, known as CREW Careers Building Opportunities, was sponsored by Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) in Dallas. This is their 10th year of sponsoring the program. Throughout the day, students worked in teams alongside CREW members to create a redevelopment plan for the now-vacant Mirabeau B. Lamar School at 1403 Corinth St. The 56 students prepared for the design challenge with a tour of the…

Watch out NASA, more future science and engineer field leaders are heading your way! Woodrow Wilson High School’s RoboCats competed in the Dallas BEST Regional Robotics Competition, Oct. 18 at Eastfield College. They were one of two teams from North Texas to advance to state, after this year’s competition. “There are two ranking systems and the overall ranking includes the team’s marketing, record keeping lab books showing their design process and other things,” said Marc Hairston, Woodrow’s University of Texas at Dallas sponsor. Brandon Carver, Woodrow Wilson STEM Academy head, also won the outstanding teacher award at the competition, based…