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.
The rapid sweep of gentrification has already wiped away many old homes in the once redlined Gilbert-Emory community.
Paul L. Dunbar and H.S. Thompson schools in South Dallas received grants to support innovation in areas like leadership, technology, STEM.
For many families in South Dallas, COVID has forced them to choose between sending their kids to school and facing financial and health risks, or keeping them home and dealing with isolation and learning loss.
Dallas ISD high school, middle school, and elementary students have missed days of school. Authorities presented a plan to address this.
Dallas ISD officials have a three-phase plan to give families free WiFi that could minimize the city’s digital divide.
The Nov. 3 presidential election is attracting record numbers of early voters in Dallas to the polls, but there are local decisions to be made, too, including five Dallas ISD bond propositions totaling $3.7 billion.
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.