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Richardson Isd

• 39,204 total students

• 38.5 square miles

• 51 schools

• 15 are in Lake Highlands

WHAT IS ACE?

Richardson ISD announced their plans to implement Accelerating Campus Excellence in 2018. The program provides additional services to Carolyn Bukhair Elementary, Forest Lane Academy, RISD Academy and Thurgood Marshall Elementary. The high-poverty, low-performing elementary schools have before- and after-school activities, tutoring, three meals per day and uniforms. All staff, including principals and teachers, reapplied for their positions or were moved to another Richardson ISD school. ACE launched during the 20182019 school year.

4 SCHOOLS ARE PART OF RISD’S PROGRAM

3 DISTRICTS IN TEXAS OFFER ACE $3.2 MILLION TOTAL INCREMENTAL PROGRAM COSTS

MILLION STIPENDS FOR TEACHERS AND LEADERS $340,000 COST OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUCH AS TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS

$642,800 COST OF EXTRA DUTY PAY, TRANSPORTATION AND AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

$231,130 COST OF FACILITIES UPGRADES AND UNIFORMS

CC YOUNG RESIDENTS share a love story that’s withstood the test of time. It wasn’t long after they met in 1949 that they had to overcome that initial test — the first date. “She liked my brother-in-law more than me on the first date,” Paul says of their dinner with his sister and her husband. “But he was taken, so that left me.”

In spite of that, Paul, 100, and Clara, 90, discovered they had a lot in common. Both employees for Dallas ISD, they met while Clara was working as a rotating speech therapist at Davy Crockett School. Yet it was a year before Paul decided to ask Clara on a date. As the school’s principal, he thought it would be ill advised to date single teachers. But because Clara was only working at Davy Crockett two days a week, he decided to make an exception.

Nine months after they started dating, the Harrises were married on an unseasonably hot day in June at Denton’s Little Chapel in the Woods. “We leaned a lot on each other,” Clara says. “We loved our kids. We had fun, and that’s what helps get you through the hard times. It’s been a really good life.”—JAIME DUNAWAY