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  • HISD plans to preserve schools’ historic architecture

    West University Examiner, May 13, 2013 - Lamar High School was built in 1937 in a distinctive Art Deco style.  It is a school known to have graduated award-winning journalists, authors, Nobel laureates and professional athletes over the years. While Houstonians embrace the school’s rich alumni culture, few realize the building’s structure has its own legacy with a deeply rooted foundation in its surrounding community. That’s why when HISD’s $1.89 billion bond program passed in November to rebuild or renovate 40 schools across the city, the district wanted to make sure Lamar and other bond campuses with significant architecture didn’t lose their historic integrity.

    http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/west_university/news/hisd-plans-to-preserve-schools-historic-architecture/article_4cbfea39-046f-518b-9934-23a2b7c2896b.html
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  • HISD approves 11 more school bond contracts

    Houston Business Journal, May 13, 2013 - The Houston Independent School District's board of education has approved 11 more design contracts for work related to its 2012 bond construction and renovation projects. The contracts include work at two specialty high schools — DeBakey High School for the Health Professions and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Other contracts went to program management firms to oversee construction related to the bond program.

    http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2013/05/hisd-board-of-education-approves-11.html
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  • Sterling High School: Keeping It All Together

    Houston Press, May 8 2013 - A call comes in over the walkie-talkies "There are students who can't get into the school. The gates are locked." School receptionist Cherlyn Pinkney immediately goes into action, calling out for help and soon the late-arriving students and their cars are inside the black fencing. The gates at Sterling High School are there, it is explained, not to lock in the kids, but to keep trouble makers and the bad guys out. That this occasionally backfires is part and parcel of the days at this school in south Houston.

    http://www.houstonpress.com/2013-05-09/news/sterling-high-school/
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  • Lamar, other schools plan for bond projects

    Houston Chronicle, April 30, 2013 - Planning is kicking into high gear for area campuses included in Houston Independent School District's $1.89 billion bond package. Schools now have a time frame for the construction and renovation projects approved for their campuses, and some are preparing to begin working with architects on the planning process this summer. Area schools that will be impacted by the bond package approved in November include Lamar and Jefferson Davis High School, Garden Oaks Montessori Pre K-8 School, the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Wharton Dual Language Academy.

    http://www.chron.com/heights/news/article/Lamar-other-schools-plan-for-bond-projects-4476610.php
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  • Plans proceed for westside HISD bond projects

    Houston Chronicle, April 30, 2013 - Five months after the November elections, Askew Elementary School Principal Ebony Cumby is still giddy. Voters' decision to approve Houston Independent School District's $1.89 billion bond proposal will result in a replacement for her school's aging campus. Built for 400 students 37 years ago, Askew has more than 900 students…Area schools that will be impacted, in addition to Askew at 11200 Wood Lodge Drive, include Lee High School, 6529 Beverly Hill; Pilgrim Academy, 6302 Skyline Drive; and Grady Middle School, 5215 San Felipe.

    http://www.chron.com/memorial/news/article/Plans-proceed-for-westside-HISD-bond-projects-4476712.php
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  • HISD Op-Ed Submission

    Style Magazine Newswire, April 25, 2013 - Last November, voters throughout Houston, and especially those in our historically African American neighborhoods, rallied together on behalf of our children to overwhelmingly approve the most ambitious school rebuilding plan in Texas history.

    http://stylemagazine.com/news/2013/apr/25/hisd-op-ed-submission/
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  • HISD Technology officer: District wants graduates to be ‘good digital citizens’

    KHUF News, April 15, 2013 - It’s going to cost at least $10 million dollars to equip every high school student with a laptop in HISD. The district is going to spend $100 million dollars in bond money to upgrade the network infrastructure to support those computers.

    http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/1366047218-HISD-Technology-Officer-District-Wants-Graduates-To-Be-Good-Digital-Citizens.html
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