News Briefs

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Dallas ISD students are helping to do their part. For the second year, students at Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle School will spend the next few weeks decorating pumpkins to donate to the Susan G. Komen Walk for the Cure. For their efforts, the students are scheduled to be recognized by KDFW’s Clarice Tinsley as Hometown Heroes on Ch. 4, at 5 p.m., Monday, Oct. 6.  The pumpkins will be decorated using colorful beads, rhinestones, ribbons and other embellishments and delivered to North Park on Oct. 16 to adorn the survivors’ tent at…

The Home-Rule Charter Commission community meeting scheduled for District 8 on Saturday, Oct. 4 at Francisco F. “Pancho” Medrano Middle School has been cancelled. The meeting will be rescheduled in the near future. Our Home-Rule Commission page will have additional information.

On Sept. 30, the Dallas Morning News Education Blog published a story that highlights the efforts of Dallas ISD’s pre-kindergarten specialists and how they support our students. The image below will take you the story, which includes a video produced by Dallas ISD for its pre-K program.

Log in to the NBC 5 website between now and Thursday and support the Adamson versus Kimball football game at AT&T Stadium for the Big Game Friday game of the week. Everyone – students, staff, families and community members – is encouraged to visit the Big Game Friday web page and make their voices heard in support of Adamson versus Kimball. If the schools are chosen, their respective band members, pep squad, cheerleaders and more will be featured on live broadcasts leading up to the game.