Schools
Harmony to offer free, reduced-price meals
Harmony Public Schools announced its policy for providing free and reduced-price meals for children served under the attached current income eligibility guidelines. Each school/site or the central office has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by anyone on...
GISD teacher fired; police investigate alleged illegal activity
CBS 11 has reported that police are investigating an incident in which a Garland ISD band teacher allegedly tried to meet up with a minor after corresponding on social media. According to the report, Randy King, the principal at the Classical Center-Brandenburg Middle...
GISD offers free, reduced-price breakfasts
Garland ISD offers a nutritious breakfast to students for a price at all schools on every school day. Contact your campus for specific serving times. Some schools also have free and reduced-priced breakfasts for students that qualify. Families that need help paying...
GHS grad enters Naval Academy
Gabriel Tisdale, 2022 Garland High School graduate, is well on his way to realizing one of his lifetime goals. He has always wanted to be a Naval aviator and will soon begin his freshman year at the Naval Academy. He began his academic journey at Walnut Glen Academy...
SGHS auto collision repair student places in competitions
Andrew Castillo, who runs the Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing program at South Garland High School, and Joshua Manta, a student in the program, recently made history. And, it was a year of several firsts. It was Castillo’s first year to teach and Manta’s...
GISD assistant principal attends Harvard Grad School workshops
Lily Dominguez Carrero, the assistant principal at Garland ISD’s Bullock Elementary School is among the 85 educators from across Texas sponsored by the Charles Butt Foundation to attend weeklong summer institutes at the Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate...
College-sponsored NMSC scholarship winners
National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) recently announced over 2,600 winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities. The group included two Garland ISD students - Jack V. Le from Garland High School and Adrian Munoz from North...
RHS senior receives TCBSBM scholarship
Jordan Myers, a senior at Rowlett High School in GISD, has been awarded the Texas Caucus of Black School Board Members Scholarship. Myers will be graduating in a couple of weeks and plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin and major in psychology on the...
GISD students named National Merit finalists
Each year, 1.5 million juniors take the PSAT/NMSQT. In early September, about 16,000 students, or approximately 0.5 percent of the highest-scoring students per state, are notified by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation that they have qualified as National Merit...
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