Booker T. Washington High School Principal Carlos Phillips has been named the H-E-B Excellence in Education Secondary Principal Award winner for 2020. This year, Excellence in Education award winners were announced during a virtual “Toast to Texas Teachers” in celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week. The virtual event included surprise appearances from actors Matthew McConaughey […]
With the shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HISD seniors have had to adjust to the abrupt interruption of what should be the most memorable year in the course of a student’s academic journey. Because of this, HISD has designated next week, May 11-15, as Senior Spirit Week to uniquely celebrate the […]
For Yash Shahi, being Waltrip High School’s Class of 2020 virtual valedictorian feels just as good as if school were in session. “Nothing has changed – it still feels great,” he said. “I am so happy that I was announced valedictorian before school closed.” Despite the physical distance, Yash has found innovative ways to […]
Two HISD students receive scholarships HISD’s Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts received three Tommy Tune Awards for its production of “The Color Purple” in the annual competition, which celebrates the educational value and excellence of high school musical theatre in the Greater Houston area. The awards were announced during a first-of-its-kind online […]
Construction at Lamar High School is continuing, as allowable under the public health guidelines, with renovations to the original building now 80 percent complete. The renovation work, designed to preserve the building’s historically significant architecture, included the construction of a new child care wing, welcome center, and updated ROTC and Career and Technical Education classrooms. […]
Three Houston Independent School District students have received National Merit Scholarship awards, one of the nation’s most competitive academic honors for graduating high school seniors. Two of the students attend Bellaire High School and one attends Westside High School. They are among 1,000 distinguished high school seniors who have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards […]
As a line of cars stretched down the block of Houston’s Woodland Heights neighborhood, Travis Elementary second-grader Kai Teste eagerly waved his hands from the car window at his teachers’ smiling faces. For the past six years, the HISD school has participated in the One Book, One School event in which the entire campus community […]
The Houston Independent School District will continue operating food distribution sites, with another 25 sites operating throughout the district during the week of April 27. The food distribution efforts will continue utilizing Nutrition Services staff to pack food bags at the Hexser T. Holliday Food Services Support Facility and deliver the food to the distribution […]
The Houston Independent School District is partnering with the Houston Food Bank to organize a second mass food distribution site on Saturday, April 25 from 4 to 7 p.m. at NRG Stadium. Distribution will be held in the NRG yellow lot, and attendees must enter via the yellow lot main entrance off South Main Street. […]
With most of the country shut down in an attempt to flatten the COVID-19 curve, HISD’s Construction Services — designated an essential service — is continuing to work on school construction across the district. HISD Construction General Manager Andreas Peeples said construction is expected to continue as allowable under public health guidelines but noted that […]