May 13, 2015 – Only a few of the original teachers and staff who opened Ferguson Junior High in 2001 remain in 2015. As the school year comes to an end and Ferguson Junior High prepares to close, these teachers and staff are about to say goodbye to a long and proud chapter of their…

The AISD hosted two community meetings on May 4, 2015, one to discuss the future fine arts center and one to discuss the future athletics complex. Both buildings will be funded by the 2014 Bond package. The fine arts center is scheduled to open in 2018 and the athletics complex is scheduled to open in…

The AISD began planning for the bond-funded future districtwide fine arts center with a two-day planning lab. Led by Kerianne Wolf, an educational consultant with DeJONG-RICHTER, participants in the lab included AISD fine arts teachers, students, administrators and parents. The all-day sessions kicked off Monday morning, April 26, with a flute solo by Crystal K.,…

The AISD will host community meetings on May 4, 2015, about plans for a districtwide fine arts center and a districtwide athletics complex. At the meetings the AISD will share the results of its initial planning labs for the facilities and seek community feedback and input. FINE ARTS MEETING – 5:30-7 p.m. Monday, May 4,…

April 29, 2015 – The AISD began planning this week for its future bond-funded districtwide athletics complex with a two-day planning lab. The facility will provide outstanding competition venues for swimming and diving, gymnastics, wrestling and Special Olympics, and will also host the AISD’s athletic offices. The planning lab brought together swimming, gymnastics and wrestling…

April 26, 2015 – Ousley and Ferguson Junior Highs hosted a joint Cultural Festival on Friday, April 24, at the Ousley campus to celebrate the diversity that exists at the two schools and around the world. The two junior highs will consolidate next year and decided to do the event together to jumpstart the process…

April 2015 – Students have been accepted for the inaugural kindergarten classes of AISD’s two new fine arts/dual language academies, scheduled to open in August 2015. The two new academies, one in north Arlington at Roqemore Elementary and one in south Arlington at Corey Elementary, will provide students an innovative program that develops fluency in both…

The $82 million in the 2014 bond earmarked for technology encompasses many elements, but the underlying objective behind it all is to increase technology access for AISD students for the purpose of improved learning. In pursuit of this object, the AISD technology department is developing district wide classroom standards – minimum standards that each classroom…

April 2015 – Venture High School and Newcomer Center, two of AISD’s alternative schools, will share a new home next year. Both are moving to what is currently Ferguson Junior High. Though they will share space, they will continue to operate as two separate schools. Teachers and administrators from both schools gathered for planning labs…

New security cameras – part of the 2014 Bond package – arrived March 25. The cameras, worth $479,000, will be installed in 24 schools, part of Phase 1 of the bond. Eventually all schools will receive new cameras. The new cameras will allow the AISD Security Department to increase video surveillance from 35 to 80…