Grand Prairie ISD
November 5-
Take a Veteran to School Day was created to honor veterans and build community partnerships while bringing history to life for students.
September 1-
Texas A&M-Commerce and Dallas-based Education is Freedom to launch $3.2-million outreach partnership
A&M-Commerce will work with EIF students from middle school through graduation to create a program that prepares and motivates students to go to college.
July 30-
Find two pieces of land worth the same amount. Trade. Win.
May 21-
The plans, which earlier met with contentious debate, passed with little fanfare.
May 15-
Voters overwhelmingly approved the street repairs sales tax, and five incumbents were re-elected.
May 5-
It is not at all clear that board members were made aware of the possibility of fraud, etc. before raising their superintendent's salary.
April 20-
Alishia Givens received the opportunity to shadow professionals and explore broadcasting opportunities for her future.
April 17-
Facilities Director Kit Mason told the crowd that Houston Elementary has outlived its useful life as a school.
February 26-
Bebe Bingham, Mike Skinner and Paul Martinez have all filed for re-election to the school board.
February 19-
Tony Shotwell and Rick Sala now join Ron Jensen in running for re-election this May.
February 11-
Seems like kind of a low bar to hurdle, but whatevs.
January 30-
The annual GPISD Teacher of the Year reception brought together teachers from around the district to be recognized for their work.
September 12, 2008-
Preliminary reports suggest that a group of children started a small fire in a third-grade classroom by breaking a window and throwing a smoke bomb into the school.
July 27, 2008-
In a crazy turn of events, the principals became students.
May 19, 2008-
Despite its name, the program actually involves drunk driving and not teen pregnancy.
March 8, 2008-
One from the "Why The Hell Wasn't It Already Like This?" files.
February 12, 2008-
Among other things, it was an education of just how disparate the different communities and school districts in DFW are.
February 8, 2008-
Annual State of Education in the Region Luncheon provides discussion of the challenges and opportunities faced by school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
January 20, 2008-
Yeah, other North Texas schools were honored too, but Grand Prairie won four awards. Grand Prairie has officially kicked litter's butt.
September 14, 2007-
Dozie Njeako, 15, died during a junior varsity football game Sept. 6 between Mansfield and Grand Prairie.
















Launching it softly, with this post
I just realized that links in comments are styled to look just like text, which might cause some people to miss out on my hilarity.