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

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.

South Dallas

Renee Umsted - March 5, 2024

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

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.

Dallas News

Sujata Dand - February 21, 2024

Meet Lincoln High School’s new principal: Lance Williams

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.

South Dallas

Michaela Rush - August 11, 2023

A parking lot symbolizes the State Fair of Texas’ racist history

A parking lot symbolizes the State Fair of Texas’ racist history

Historians and journalists have documented — and today’s staffers recognize — the State Fair of Texas’ racist history. In the early 1900s the fair hosted one “Colored People Day” per year. It was discontinued in 1910.  On a Wednesday in fall 1923, Ku Klux Klan Day drew some 160,000 Klansmen to the fairgrounds for the initiation of the “largest class in the history of Klandom,” according to the flier, which included an application for membership on the back.  Negro Achievement Day launched in 1936. Each year on Oct. 14, Black fairgoers were admitted inside the gates. 

South Dallas

Christina Hughes Babb - October 8, 2021

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

‘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

Sujata Dand - April 15, 2021