EDUCATION

Summer is still in full swing, but soon students of North Texas will return to their normal schedules and head back to school. Here’s when North Texas districts go back to school:. Allen ISD. The first day of school will begin on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, and end on...

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Saanvi Sreejit, a 2022 graduate of Lebanon Trail High School in Frisco, was recently crowned the 2024 Miss Frisco Scholarship Pageant Queen. The University of Texas at Austin student is pursuing a degree in advertising with a minor in business. Daughter of Malavika Sreejit and Sreejit Ankarath, Saanvi balances her...

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The end of one chapter gives way to the start of another, and such is the case as teams around the state begin preparations for the 2023-24 school year. Realignment shuffled the deck aplenty with Coppell and Lewisville ISD saying goodbye to District 6-6A after a four-year run with Plano ISD, while joining forces with Denton Braswell, Denton Guyer and Little Elm in a revamped 5-6A in what figures to be one of the area’s most competitive districts among numerous sports. Creekview, Newman Smith, RL Turner and The Colony will remain in the same district for every sport, except for football, and will welcome powerhouse Highland Park, which will replace Frisco. The Raccoons are headed for all-Frisco ISD District 11-5A.

Kennitra Robertson, the new principal of Plano Senior High School, brings 17 years of experience in Plano ISD to her role. Originally from South Louisiana, Robertson has served as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal at various schools in the district. Her career in education began after college, inspired by her work as a tutoring coordinator. Robertson's approach to leadership emphasizes building strong relationships with students and staff, a philosophy she developed through her diverse roles in education. As she takes the helm at Plano Senior, Robertson aims to continue the school's tradition of academic excellence while fostering a supportive community for all students.

These one-million newspaper issues comprise 11,256,533 pages, contributed by 226 partners from across Texas, and representing 210 counties. The staff in the Digital Newspaper Unit get to handle almost every newspaper that is uploaded into the TDNP collection, and we all have a favorite newspaper title, masthead, or time period. Tim Gieringer, who oversees the newspaper descriptions for what you see in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, loves a good masthead. He says that two titles, in particular, have stood out to him: The Palacios Beacon and Diogenes. Brooke Edsall, the head of the physical page and large-format scanning area, has said that her favorite newspaper collections are The Galveston Tribune and The Ennis Daily News. Hannah Lindsey, who oversees newspaper issue processing, says that her favorite newspapers are the Beeville Bee, the Houston Informer, and Svoboda. Sarah Lynn Fisher, former staff member of the Newspaper Unit and now Digital Collections Librarian, reports that she loves all of the local Denton newspapers, including UNT’s own NT Daily, the Denton Record-Chronicle, and her hometown newspaper, The Allen American. As the person who has worked with all the partners across Texas to add their newspapers, I’m not sure how to begin choosing a favorite title, though I do love reading through the Spanish-language newspapers, civil rights newspapers, like The Chicano Times, and this wacky handwritten, Union POW camp newspaper, The Old Flag.