BY INDRIA HOLLINGSWORTH On May 4, buses filled with more than 50 excited 5th graders and left from KIPP Truth Academy for a tour of important civil rights destinations. Kipp Academy is a college-preparatory middle school, located in Oak Cliff. The school is dedicated to student success and embraces the...
Here are some of the important developments that came out of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office last week. CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION TXDOT GRANT Funding will be used for 2.6 mile road in Tarrant County Washington, DC – (May 15, 2009) Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today announced...
There’s a pretty good little dust up going on at the Dallas Morning News Opinion Blog. It revolves around low voter turnout in Southern Dallas for last week’s election. The comments section has digressed into a discussion of DISD and ironically enough this post will too. OK, so here are...
THECB officially certifies enrollment; statute creating university in effect DALLAS – The University of North Texas at Dallas was “born today,” UNT Dallas Campus Vice Chancellor John Ellis Price said from Austin following the official certification of spring enrollment figures by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)April 30. Spring...
Office of State Representative Yvonne Davis Press Release On Wednesday, April 27, 2009, Representative Yvonne Davis attached an amendment to House Bill 3 to create the Dallas Independent School District Education Improvement Commission. The 21-member commission would include community leaders, educators, representatives of local governments and business leaders. The commission...
Shutting Down Fort Worth School System: Right Decision By Eddie G. Griffin, Child’s Rights Advocate When we received word that Dr. Melody Johnson was shutting down the entire Fort Worth Independent School District because of the international Swine Flu pandemic alarm, I was amazed. It was a bold and decisive...
DALLAS – Former Burundi diplomat Jean-Marie Ngendahayo will speak at the University of North Texas Dallas Campus on the issue of human rights and democracy in Africa at 1:30 p.m. May 4. The public and media are invited to attend. In the visit encouraged by State Rep. Richard Peña Raymond...
By James “Bird” Guess So we know that only 10 percent of Spruce graduates were college ready in reading and math last year, and the school has been rated academically unacceptable for the past four years. Anything else? Oh wait, the kids don’t care about education and their parents did...
DALLAS (Apr. 2, 2009) – Stating that “despite challenging times, we must continue to invest in our youth,” Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and AT&T kicked off the second year of the Mayor’s Intern Fellows program by challenging Dallas business to double the number of summer internships offered to qualified Dallas...
I have to say that I was moved by my son and his effort in the Frederick Douglass Academy Oratorical Competition. Isaiah took 1st place in the 1st grade division. He recited a portion of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, and now they’re calling him “Little Obama” at school. When we...
