Jan. 29, 2016 – Dr. Marcelo Cavazos, AISD superintendent, held two meetings yesterday for AISD administration staff to update them on the district’s strategic plan, the 2014 Bond program and other initiatives. The AISD is adopting a new strategic plan, he explained, that builds on the previous one. Still called Achieve Today. Excel Tomorrow., the…

Jan. 27, 2016 – Bond-related construction is in full-swing. In fact, by next summer, 44 schools will have construction projects underway or already finished. The bond is also funding several new districtwide facilities, along with two new elementary schools. Below are details about the projects currently underway. Workman Junior High Construction is underway at Workman…

Each AISD elementary school will receive an acoustically appropriate strings room, funded by the 2014 Bond package. The bond is also enabling other life cycle and deficiency upgrades at each elementary, along with the addition of two STEM – science, technology, engineering, mathematics – labs. (Read more about the STEM labs.) While construction of the…

Jan. 22, 2016 – The future multi-purpose activity center (MAC) at Arlington High School is starting to look like a real building. The work has gone vertical as steel is now being erected. Construction started at the future facility, along with similar buildings at each of the AISD’s six high schools, in early November. Until…

Jan. 20, 2016 – The Citizens Bond Oversight Committee met yesterday for its quarterly review of the status and progress of the 2014 Bond program. Led by AISD chief financial officer Cindy Powell, AISD staff gave updates on the various areas of the bond: fine arts; safety, security and technology; transportation; and facilities. The meeting…

“This building will probably be the most used on campus in terms of number of hours,” said Kevin Ozee, AISD director of athletics, about the future multi-purpose activity centers now under construction at each of the AISD’s six high schools. “I don’t think the community realizes how special these are going to be for each…

When Katiuska Herrador heard about a new dual language and fine arts academy opening in the Arlington ISD, she went for the top job – even though it meant leaving the school district where she had spent her entire career to date. Carpe diem has been Herrador’s lifelong mantra, passed down by her mother, who…

Jan. 13, 2016 – Today, the Arlington ISD and University of North Texas announce a partnership that will allow AISD students to earn dual credit in fine arts. One objective of the AISD Achieve Today. Excel Tomorrow. strategic plan is that 100 percent of students will graduate on time and excel at their school or…

Jan. 12, 2016 – Hutcheson Junior High is gone. The building – in the process of demolition since June – has now been completely leveled. In its place, the AISD will build a districtwide Career and Technical Center. The demolition process is not quite finished though. It will continue through February to tear up the foundation…

Six junior high boys crowded around four bananas connected by wires to a laptop. The bananas, when touched, played notes like piano keys. It was a lesson in basic circuitry that quickly captured the boys’ attention. Soon they were connecting the wires to other materials – like keys and chocolate bars – to see if…