HISD Team Lead for Supplier Diversity Bernard Willingham told a group of small and minority business owners to remember one number: $1.89 billion. “Every one of you in this room should want to know how you can get your hands on that for your business,” said Willingham, who spoke about the district’s 2012 bond program […]
It might seem a bit premature to be thinking about the 2014–2015 school year, but parents who want to learn about the vast array of options HISD has to meet the needs, talents, and/or interests of their children should begin the process now. The district will begin accepting applications for Magnet programs for the coming […]
In today’s world of cell-phone texts, social media posts, and online videos, what a student says or does in the digital world may come back to haunt them in the future. That’s just one of the lessons students are learning during a special PowerUp digital citizenship class happening at all 11 high schools participating in […]
Students at HISD’s Booker T. Washington High School are giving three-dimensional form to their imaginings, thanks to a new 3-D printer, a powerful new laptop, and Chevron’s Fuel Your School program, which helped fund the equipment’s purchase. The students are involved in an exciting challenge to design an extraterrestrial colony on Mars with their contemporaries […]
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Community meetings for 2012 bond schools are underway with some schedule changes to encourage as much participation as possible.
A thundering round of applause broke out at the Energy Institute High School this past week as nearly 200 students received their own laptops to use at school and at home as part of PowerUp, the district’s one-to-one laptop initiative. ‘’It was really touching and emotional for me to see these students get so excited […]
Sometimes, it’s the small kindnesses that can mean the most to people in a bad situation. Such was the case for Cynthia Smith, a clerk in HISD’s Police Department, who lost everything back in 2001, when Tropical Storm Allison dumped more than three feet of water on some areas of Houston, leaving about 30,000 people […]
Over the next week, 165 HISD students from two different schools will take home a free, refurbished computer thanks to two local computer recycling programs. The computers will be given to students at Sugar Grove Academy and Berry Elementary School. They are being provided by Comp-U-Dopt and TechnoCycle.
It doesn’t matter if your child is 4 or 14, it’s never too early to start planning for college. That’s the message Houston Independent School District College Readiness Manager Yolanda Norman is spreading this October as the district celebrates College Readiness Month. College Readiness Month is designed to get students thinking about college and prepare […]