Dallas ISD Schools To Reopen A Week Early For Students Moving Between Certain Grade Levels
Dallas ISD is inviting students who will attend classes for the first time in a new building to return a week early, on Monday, Sept. 28.
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Dallas ISD is inviting students who will attend classes for the first time in a new building to return a week early, on Monday, Sept. 28.
If you are a Dallas ISD student or parent in need of mental health support -- the district encourages reaching out now.
Based on the recent leveling out of Dallas County COVID-19 cases, the district is permitting the phased-in start of athletic conditioning and other designated UIL activities on Tuesday.
Sixteen students from Carroll High are in mandatory quarantine, just one week after starting school.
A group of high school student athletes from several Dallas ISD schools on Monday staged a protest outside the district's headquarters as sports activities have been postponed.
"Not every family will be able to do it, and I hope they have somebody that can kind of help them with going back to school," said Stephanie Dunbar.
"Not everyone is going to be happy with the decision, but it is what it is and it's the context we are in," said Superintendent Michael Hinojosa.
North Texas school districts are having to prepare for everything from network outages to malicious hacking incidents while remote learning.
Starting Monday, Dallas ISD will begin its mass technology deployment of more than 60,000 devices to elementary students.
Launching with grades 3 and 4, selected students attend their neighborhood schools, but live on the At Last! campus during the week.
On Monday, Dallas ISD will begin making good on a promise to build a bridge over the digital divide
Dallas ISD has invested $20 million in order to provide students with devices for virtual learning as it approaches the start of the new school year on Sept. 8.
More than 20 self-identified teachers with urged trustees to reject planned reopening of schools that include a face-to-face model.
The Dallas ISD board waded through hours of public comment Thursday afternoon, prior to an expected vote on a school calendar and re-entry plan for students and teachers.
Bus drivers for Dallas ISD say they are still waiting for some sort of COVID-19 safety plan ahead of the start of the school year.
The school district launched with it calls its Reentry Playbook for Parents and Staff.
The Dallas Independent School District school board will vote Thursday on a new calendar that could push the end of the school year to mid-June.
The "Education Evolution" guidebook is headed to the school board for consideration and will soon be available online for parents to review.
Dallas ISD parents have launched a petition, hoping teachers can be given the same options as them when it comes to the upcoming school year during the pandemic.
"You can beat this thing. It took me a hundred days to do it. Actually today is the 101st day!" Sgt. Vincente Remediz said.
Superintendents of the state's largest school districts are pushing back against a planned return to campus next month.
"COVID-19 requires school districts to be innovative and flexible as education is being reimagined around the globe," Dallas ISD said on Twitter.
At this point, it looks like Dallas ISD parents will have the option of sending their students back to school in the fall and school nurses are now having to prepare for a number of things.
Several North Texas school districts already planning for flexible options, in line with new guidance from the Texas Education Agency.
Ready or not the new school year gets underway in a little more than a month in North Texas.
