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See what the new Thornton looks like If you’ve driven on Park Row near 360 anytime this school year, you couldn’t help but notice Thornton Elementary. It’s an eye-catcher and doesn’t look a thing like the old Thornton school building that used to be there. It doesn’t just look amazing from the outside. The inside…
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Bond 2019 highlights from the year that was Year four of the 2019 Bond program – or 2023 – brought some major accomplishments. With $966 million in the 2019 Bond package, there are projects that impact every school, and there is ongoing construction throughout the district. Some bond projects are now done, some are in…
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Update on bond construction projects Not everyone in the É«ÎÑÎÑÎÞÂëÒ»Çø¶þÇøÈýÇø is getting a long winter break. While most of us circle the holidays on the calendar because we get to take those days off, the district’s facility services team circles those days for a different reason. Those are prime work days. They take advantage…
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New Berry replaces school built in 1955 If you missed the new Berry Elementary’s grand opening earlier this school year, you missed a party. Sir Earl Toon of Kool and the Gang performed several of his biggest hits, including “Celebration,” in the school’s cafetorium. While there’s not going to be a repeat of the concert,…
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Knox building was originally a junior high Knox Elementary is gone. The school building that housed four different schools in its 60 years has been completely demolished. The school opened in 1962 as the first Ferguson Junior High and the fourth junior high school in Arlington. It was converted into Venture School 25 years later…
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Construction is the largest part of the 2019 Bond It’s not easy to keep up with all the construction projects included in É«ÎÑÎÑÎÞÂëÒ»Çø¶þÇøÈýÇø’s 2019 Bond program. It’s a nearly $1 billion bond package after all that includes projects at every campus, new school buildings, new playgrounds and a whole lot more.  But a…
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Glaspie Field will be district’s third stadium With cheerleaders, a drumline and a pep band, this groundbreaking ceremony felt more like a pep rally. But that was fitting considering the project É«ÎÑÎÑÎÞÂëÒ»Çø¶þÇøÈýÇø is about to start. The district is kicking off construction to convert the athletic field at Martin High School into the district’s…
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Bond 2019 moves on to last phase Two phases down, one to go. The new playgrounds getting installed at all 53 É«ÎÑÎÑÎÞÂëÒ»Çø¶þÇøÈýÇø elementary schools – funded by the 2019 Bond – are divided into three phases. The first two phases, each with 17 schools, are now officially complete. That means all 34 schools in…
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New junior high is funded by the 2019 Bond This was a little different than an outdoor concert at the Levitt Pavilion. This outdoor venue featured piles of rubble. And the backdrop for Carter Junior High’s orchestra, band and choir included two huge yellow earth movers. As the student musicians played and sang, the walls…
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Thornton celebrates with singing, dancing and tamales Tamara Edwards, Thornton Elementary School’s music teacher, lined her choir students up on the stage stairs and then sat down at the piano. The standing-room-only crowd in the cafetorium, along with the overflow in the library watching the live stream, waited patiently for the students to start singing…
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