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Summer break in Dallas ISD stretches a full 11 weeks — this year from May 24 to August 11. Many West Dallas teens work summer ...

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Students will receive clear backpacks, school supplies, free haircuts, manicures, and ear piercings at the 5th Annual Back to School Bash. Supplies will be distributed on a first-come, first-served ...

Dixon's Annual Back to School Bash will provide school uniforms, calculator training, music, food, games, and prizes for students and their families to kick off the school year.

Janie Cisneros credits her neighborhood-based activism to serendipity. She is the leader of Singleton United/Unidos, a newly established neighborhood association in West Dallas, fighting for clean air ...

Clinical psychologist Mara Estrada is preparing to see her third client of the day at Brother Bill’s Helping Hand in West Dallas. She sets up her laptop in the mental health care office. Children’s ...

New Civic Atlas tool makes Dallas zoning cases, building permits ‘just as easy to use as Zillow’ ...

Since opening for the 2021 school year, the West Dallas STEM School has balanced four major stakeholders — the West Dallas community, Toyota USA Foundation, Dallas ISD, and SMU’s Annette Caldwell ...

Beautiful, easy data visualization and storytellingAll of the additional acquisitions prompt the question: How did Forest Forward go from reopening a historic theater to what it is calling a ...

Beverly Thomas is 73 years old and has lived in the Bonton neighborhood of South Dallas almost her entire life. She’s never owned a car. “The thing is, I’ve never learned how to drive,” Thomas says.