Arlington voters approved the $663.1 million bond on May 10, 2014. Proceeds of the bond are聽being used to build new facilities, upgrade and renovate existing facilities, address safety and security districtwide, upgrade technology infrastructure and equipment, provide fine arts equipment and address transportation.
Bond News
A limited supply of landscape items from Hutcheson Junior High are available for schools and campus support organizations (PTAs, Dads Clubs, etc.) to remove and replant at their campus. Items may not be removed for personal use, as state law prohibits gifts of public funds. Removal and replanting is the responsibility of the campus organizations…
New security cameras funded by the 2014 Bond package are up and running at Sam Houston High School, the first Arlington high school to receive the cameras. 鈥淭he clarity of these cameras are much better than our previous systems,鈥 explained James Smith, AISD security manager. (The photo displays the views of 80 of the 128…
As two AISD junior high schools consolidate with others, and two alternative high schools relocate, it鈥檚 not just the teachers and students who have to move. The libraries need to move too. That鈥檚 not an easy task, especially for a library like Hutcheson Junior High鈥檚, which has 14,000 volumes. It鈥檚 not as simple as just…
Each AISD high school received new cameras and lenses this year for their journalism, newspaper and yearbook programs, funded by the technology section of the 2014 Bond package. Emily Miller, the journalism teacher at Arlington High School, and her yearbook students could not be more thrilled with the new equipment. They received five Cannon 70D…