Lantrip families benefit from Houston Food Bank, Texas Children’s Hospital, UT School of Public Health
Lantrip Elementary will have a long line outside their building Wednesday, full of students waiting to collect their fruit and vegetables. Yes, fruit and vegetables. A collaborative effort between the Houston Food Bank, Texas Children’s Hospital, and the University of Texas School of Public Health is providing students at several HISD schools access to fresh produce throughout the school year.
Jane Long Academy held a white coat ceremony Friday for its pharmacy students.
The ceremony was held to induct ninth-graders into the School of Pharmacy Technology, which is part of the HISD’s Futures Academy, and to celebrate the achievements tenth-graders have made over the past year.
A SWAT truck, underwater robotics, construction materials, and sample rotating drill bits. Visitors saw that and more when attending the second annual When I Grow Up Expo. The hands-on, Career and Technical Education event held March 8 hosted more than 60 Houston-based companies from a variety of industries.
Energy, engineering, construction, cosmetology, retail and other high-growth businesses spent Saturday demonstrating how their industries operate and why theirs holds promise for future HISD graduates.
Yates High School’s boys basketball team made it to the district 3A state championship game for the second year in a row, but fell short of the title.
Yates High School’s boys basketball team will play for the district 3A state championship at 10 a.m. Saturday in Austin. The game will be broadcast on Fox Sports Southwest Plus.
Yates will be playing the same team it played in the title game last year, Dallas’ Madison High School. Yates lost that game and is hoping to avenge that loss. The players’ sprits are high after beating Kennedale, which had been undefeated this season, in the state semifinals game on Thursday.
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This level of play is nothing new to Yates, who competed for the state championship in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. The program won back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010.
Students at West University Elementary School collected more food for the Souper Bowl of caring than any other school in the United States, and a Houston Texans star visited the campus on Friday to congratulate them.
Offensive tackle Duane Brown, along with some of the Houston Texans cheerleaders, celebrated the 30,908-pound donation with a pep rally.
The Souper Bowl of Caring’s goal is to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their communities. Houston has the largest campaign in the nation, and West University ES has led the effort for four consecutive years.
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The second bid package for the construction of the new Delmar-Tusa Athletic Complex will include underground and structural concrete site work and will be open for subcontractors to bid on by the end of March.
“If you meet our pre-qualifications, your references come back great, and you’ve done similar projects to this magnitude, all of these factors will go into consideration when making our selection of subcontractors,” said DivisionOne Construction President Todd Hamby during a meet and greet Thursday at HISD with the firm that was selected as Delmar’s Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR). “We want to hire companies that will make this project a success.”
Austin High School’s Lady Mustangs Soccer Team has won the 44-4A district championship.
The team moves on to the first round of the playoffs, where they will take on Pearland’s Dawson High School on March 25.
Seven of the players are seniors who have played together for their entire high school careers. They’ve been to the playoffs each year and always moved up in the standings.
Yates High School’s boys basketball team will play for the state title again!
The team beat the Kennedale Wildcats, which had been undefeated, 86-79 in the 3A UIL semifinals in Austin on Thursday. Yates will play Dallas’ Madison High School in the finals on Saturday at 10 a.m.
Attention Parents/Guardians, Former Students, Eligible (Adult) Students:
Special Education records which have been collected by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) related to the identification, evaluation, educational placement, or the provision of Special Education in the district, must be maintained under state and federal laws for a period of five years after Special Education services have ended for the student. This requirement has changed from seven years to five years based on the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and HISD’s updated records retention schedule. Special Education services end when the student no longer is eligible for services, graduates, completes his or her educational program at age 22, or moves from the district.
This notification is to inform parents/guardians and former students of HISD’s intent to destroy the Special Education records of students who are no longer receiving Special Education services as of the end of the 2005–2006 through the 2007–2008 school year. These records will be destroyed in accordance with state law unless the parent/guardian or eligible (adult) student notifies the school district otherwise.