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  • Bickers Park,Candidate Responses,Education,Greenleaf Village,Homestead,Local Government,Victory Gardens,West Dallas

    Natashia Gerald: Dallas ISD District 5 trustee candidate

    Natashia Gerald, a 42-year-old Dallas resident, is running for Dallas ISD District 5 trustee to advocate for effective programs and practices that meet the diverse needs of students in West Dallas.

  • Bickers Park,Candidate Responses,Education,Greenleaf Village,Homestead,Local Government,Victory Gardens,West Dallas

    Byron Sanders: Dallas ISD District 5 trustee candidate

    Byron Sanders, a 20-year education leader and former CEO of Big Thought, is running for Dallas ISD District 5 trustee to ensure that Dallas ISD becomes a model of innovation, equity, and excellence for all students.

  • Education,South Dallas

    South Dallas leaders want new career institute at old Billy Dade school site

    South Dallas neighbors and Trustee Ed Turner's proposal to bring a career institute into South Dallas gains momentum.

  • West Dallas

    West Dallas STEM School has a new principal

    Meet the new principal of Dr. Elba and Domingo Garcia West Dallas School and review the changes in the school.

  • Dallas News,Public Safety,South Dallas,West Dallas

    Amid rising safety concerns, Dallas ISD boosts campus security while striving to meet armed guard mandate

    Dallas ISD's police chief works to manage the public safety of students by balancing security measures and a welcoming environment.

  • Education,South Dallas,St. Philip’s

    How a new arts-focused South Dallas school is earning its ‘Baby Booker T.’ nickname

    Posters and playbills featuring Broadway musicals line the walls of […]

  • Education,South Dallas

    Russell Lonnie III is the new principal of the “Great” James Madison High School

    Learn about Principal Russell's plans to reverse the declining enrollment, encourage students to pursue higher education and more.

  • Singleton United/Unidos,West Dallas

    New ‘West Dallas Junior High’ sign at the entrance of former Thomas Edison school

    Dallas ISD's West Dallas Junior High School will open this fall to seventh- and eighth-graders for the 2024-45 school year, and a new sign bearing its name is now in front of the former Thomas A. Edison Junior High School on Singleton.

  • Education,South Dallas

    New entrances, renovations planned for Lincoln High School

    The latest In June members of the Dallas ISD bond […]

  • Education,South Dallas,West Dallas

    Civic explainer: What is a school SBDM committee?

    The most powerful way to impact decisions on public school campuses is a site-based decision-making, or SBDM, committee, which directly advises the campus principal. Both Texas law and local Dallas ISD policy require an SBDM at every school with rules to ensure both staff and community representation on the committee.

  • South Dallas

    Here’s your cheat sheet for the Dallas ISD District 9 election

    Background information, priorities, and endorsements for District 9 Board of Trustees candidates Oralia Alonso, Da'On Boulanger-Chatman, Ed Turner, and LaKashia Wallace.

  • Dallas News

    How do Dallas ISD elections work?

    What is the job of the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees? How and when are they elected?

  • Bickers Park,Gilbert-Emory/Muncie,Greenleaf Village,Homestead,La Bajada,La Loma,Lake West,Ledbetter,Los Altos,Singleton United/Unidos,Tin District,Trinity Groves,Victory Gardens,West Dallas,Westmoreland,Westmoreland Heights

    All the Dallas ISD school options in West Dallas

    Use this graphic to keep track of changes to Dallas ISD schools in West Dallas, including demolitions and new campuses.

  • Dallas News

    We asked Dallas ISD for details on bond dollars. They told us to pay up.

    Information about the district's 2015 and 2020 bond programs should be available online. But the available data is sometimes contradictory.

  • Bonton,Education,Fair Park Estates,Mill City,Park Row/South Boulevard,South Dallas,St. Philip’s

    How Dallas ISD 2015, 2020 bond funds were spent on South Dallas schools

    Security enhancements, classroom renovations and other upgrades came to South Dallas schools.

  • Dallas News

    Follow-up: Dallas ISD’s pandemic plan to connect students didn’t work, new cheaper plan is now in effect

    Dallas ISD abandons private wireless network to focus on effective ways to provide internet access at home for students who don't have it.

  • South Dallas

    South Dallas will elect a new trustee this May

    Dallas ISD School Board President Justin Henry announced this week he will not seek reelection as the District 9 trustee, and a four-way race to replace him is underway.

  • South Dallas

    Meet Lincoln High School’s new principal: Lance Williams

    Lincoln High School welcomes a new principal, Lance Williams. Dallas Free Press sat down for a conversation with Williams to learn more about his vision for the 2023-24 school year.

  • West Dallas

    Meet our new principals: Pinkston’s Tameca Ward and West Dallas Middle School’s Laura Guzman

    Dr. L.G. Pinkston High School and West Dallas Middle School welcome new principals, Tameca Ward and Laura Guzman. Dallas Free Press sat down for conversations with Ward and Guzman to learn more about their vision for the 2023-24 school year. 

  • Dallas News

    Back-to-school events with school supply giveaways near you

    Here is a list of Back to School events happening in your community that will have backpack and school supplies giveaways, health and family resources and other services for students.

  • Dallas News

    Dallas ISD parents unclear on why clear backpacks are needed for pre-K and elementary students

    Dallas ISD is requiring all students, including preschoolers as young as 3-year-olds, to carry a clear backpack as part of the district’s “ongoing effort to ensure safer schools.”

  • Gilbert-Emory/Muncie,West Dallas

    Did Dallas ISD’s sale of the segregated Fred Douglass School seal Gilbert-Emory’s fate?

    It wasn’t until Emmanuel Glover and Sarah Ashitey moved into Gilbert-emory that they learned their new house was in a historical African-American settlement.

  • South Dallas

    Diane Ragsdale: A lifetime of community organizing in South Dallas

    The Hon. Diane Ragsdale, who will turn 70 this year, has spent her entire life in South Dallas. Her story has been shaped by the neighborhood and, likewise, she has shaped her neighborhood in significant ways. She’s still fighting some of the same issues that led her to run for Council, and as a registered nurse, she approaches the systems as she would her patients — a belief in preventative medicine that will treat the underlying causes, not just the symptoms.

  • West Dallas

    Now open: West Dallas STEM school

    This year, though seventh- and eighth-graders are at L.G. Pinkston High School's campus, they’re in a separate school with a unique learning approach — the new West Dallas STEM school.

  • West Dallas

    Dallas ISD rolls out free at-home internet access for students

    Dallas ISD invested in 40,000 hotspots last school year for families without reliable internet at home, but this year DISD plans to spend $18 million on at-home wired connections for its students.

  • South Dallas

    ‘No interruption’: Wireless network gives South Dallas students reliable internet access at home

    Dallas ISD built a large cell tower on Lincoln High School’s campus to extend the existing WiFi signal to homes within a two-mile radius of the school so students and their families could access the internet for free.

  • South Dallas

    Nearly five high schools worth of Dallas ISD students are MIA

    Dallas ISD high school, middle school, and elementary students have missed days of school. Authorities presented a plan to address this.

  • Development + Zoning,Education,MLK Corridor,South Dallas

    New gym, storm shelter coming to Dallas’ James Madison High School

    A new competition gymnasium at James Madison High School is being constructed as part of roughly $29 million the school received in Dallas ISD’s voter-approved $1.6 billion 2015 bond package.

  • Development + Zoning,Education,West Dallas

    New dashboard tracks costs, construction for West Dallas schools

    We’ve pulled the data from projects at West Dallas schools, in either Dallas ISD Trustee Maxie Johnson’s District 5 or Trustee Miguel Solis’ District 8, to chart their construction timelines, costs and completion expectations.

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