Applications open for Transformation Through Innovation grant

Students using ipads

Applications for the Transformation Through Innovation grant are now open. Funded by the 2014 Bond package, $1 million in grants will be awarded to teachers and campuses to facilitate their innovative approaches to teaching and learning through technology. To find out more and learn how to apply, visit the TI Grant website. Applications will be…

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Instrument repair course kicks off

Instrument repair class

Yesterday, August 24, 2015, marked the first day of the AISD’s brand new instrument repair program. Open to high school students throughout the district, the class is currently held at Bowie High School, but will get a permanent home at the future bond-funded fine arts center when that facility is completed in 2018. AISD Superintendent…

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Construction manager hosts pre-bid meeting for multi-purpose activity centers

Pre-bid meeting for the MACS - held at Sam Houston High School

Aug. 17, 2015 – Balfour Beatty Construction hosted a pre-bid meeting this morning at Sam Houston High School for the future multi-purpose activity centers. One multi-purpose activity center will be built at each of the Arlington ISD’s six high schools. (Read more about the multi-purpose activity centers.) Balfour Beatty is the construction manager for the…

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Hutcheson Junior High demolition process underway

Hutcheson in the process of demolition

Aug. 14, 2015 (updated Oct. 12, 2015) – Hutcheson Junior High is now closed for good and preparations for its demolition are underway. Once the building is torn down, the AISD will begin construction on a districtwide state-of-the-art Career and Technical Center. But getting to that point is a long, intensive process. First, the AISD…

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Bidding opens for multi-purpose activity centers

Early rendering of the MAC

NOTICE NEW MULTI-PURPOSE ACTIVITY CENTER ARLINGTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT Balfour Beatty Construction, LLC, is the construction manager for six (6) new multi-purpose activity center projects located at each of Arlington ISD’s high school campuses in Arlington, Texas. Proposals from qualified subcontractors will be accepted for this work. Competitive proposals are due Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015,…

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Ousley Junior High hosts family faculty night

Grilling for the Ousley faculty night

Ousley Junior High held a faculty family night Aug. 11 to help kick off the new school year. The staff has grown considerably this year with the consolidation of Ferguson Junior High and Ousley on the Ousley campus. The evening, which included a cookout, gave the teachers a chance to meet each other and introduce…

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