Westbury High School has been invited to march in the Pro Football Hall of Fame parade in Canton, Ohio, in August, but the musicians and dancers need a bit of help to pay for the trip. The band was invited because former student and athlete Michael Strahan, who now hosts Live with Kelly and Michael […]
Nearly 40 people turned out Tuesday night to hear the latest update on the plan to rebuild Condit Elementary in Bellaire under the Houston Independent School District’s 2012 bond program. The community meeting was designed to introduce the contractor who could be starting some site work in July, should the project get final approval by the […]
Editor’s note: This profile is part of an occasional series on minority- or women-owned companies that do business with HISD. The district’s minimum M/WBE goal levels are 20 percent for all levels of purchasing and construction and 25 percent for professional services. In the 2007 bond program, that commitment reached nearly 34 percent. In the […]
HISD wants to make sure no child goes hungry this summer. The district kicked off its Summer Meal Program recently with events at Herrera and Gallegos Elementary schools. HISD Food Services teamed up with the Texas Hunger Initiative and USDA to raise awareness about the program, which provides children ages 1 to 18 with a healthy […]
District directs attention to reading improvement According to preliminary 2014 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) scores, Houston Independent School District (HISD) students reflect statewide trends – showing stronger gains in math and science than reading and writing.
This summer, thousands of HISD elementary teachers are boning up on the best ways to conduct Guided Reading lessons, manage their students’ independent reading efforts, and even set up their own classrooms to better facilitate learning, as a part of the district’s new Literacy By 3 initiative. The office of Professional Support and Development is […]
A love of knowledge and a taste for trivia have brought two students from HISD’s T.H. Rogers School recognition on the national stage. Gram Brinson, who will enter HISD’s DeBakey High School for Health Professions as a freshman this fall, and Shomik Ghose, now an eighth-grader at T. H. Rogers, won the 2014 Team Bowl […]
The final day of a tour of northeast colleges and Universities by HISD EMERGE students meant stops at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., and historic Brown University in Providence, R.I. The #EMERGEtour is took more than 95 students from 15 HISD high schools to nine top-tier university campuses last week. Here are the students’ impressions of […]
School being built under 2012 bond program would be named Mark White Elementary The HISD Board of Education will consider Thursday naming a new elementary school being built in the West Houston area after former Texas Gov. Mark W. White Jr., who served in office from 1983 to 1987.
Day 3 of four-day tour by HISD EMERGE students highlighted three of the northeast’s strongest liberal arts schools — Brandeis, Clark, and Boston College. The two private colleges and one private university consistently rank high on various higher education listings, including U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges. The #EMERGEtour is taking more than 95 students […]