The U.S. Government is the largest provider of student financial aid through FAFSA – Free Application for Federal Student Aid. More than $150 billion in grants, loans, and work-study funds are available each year to help millions of students pay for higher education. Because seniors who complete the FAFSA are 90 percent more likely to […]
A photo gallery and a video featuring emergency rescue training and bus riding safety in the Houston Independent School District Transportation Department were recognized among the nation’s best in 2013, according to School Bus Fleet, the leading magazine for school bus transportation nationwide. The emergency rescue training took place in August 2013 and featured mock […]
Last year, almost two dozen HISD students became members of the city’s inaugural group of “Posse Scholars,” after a national non-profit called The Posse Foundation expanded its programming to Houston. That organization will be sending its second group of students off to higher education this fall—and the majority (70 percent)—come from HISD. The Houston branch […]
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 […]
HISD is producing some of the brightest students in the nation—and now those students are attracting attention from some of the most prestigious universities in the country. Two deans and a professor from Yale visited two HISD campuses recently to spread the news that an Ivy League education is well within even the most financially […]
High school students in grades 9-11 are encouraged to apply for the HISD EMERGE program, which prepares talented HISD students from underserved communities to successfully attend and graduate from Ivy League and other top-tier colleges. The program, which was founded in 2011 at Chavez High School by Yale graduate and then-HISD teacher Richard Cruz, is […]
MYTH: Old, unsafe Carpenter school buses are being used to transport HISD students to and from school. FACT: HISD no longer uses Carpenter school buses. In 2003, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued an advisory about Carpenter school buses, warning that the roof could cave in should the bus overturn. As a result, HISD […]
The High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice was a sea of orange on Mon., Sept. 9. Orange is the color associated with leukemia, and the school went all out to support a beloved teacher in need of blood. Two Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center mobile coaches hosted some 60 students, staff, alumni, and […]
The first day of the school is only days away, and HISD’s Transportation Department is doing everything possible to ensure a safe and successful school year. All parents should receive a postcard in the mail and at least two telephone calls before school starts with their children’s bus-route information, but a customer call center has […]
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