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YEAR IN REVIEW: K-12 EDUCATION IN 2015
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school year. From selecting the
school mascot and colors to
drawing new attendance lines,
plans were made to prepare for
the opening of the two schools
in Little Elm, about 10 miles
east of Denton.
Designs were also unveiled
over the summer for an eighth
middle school, slated to open in
2017 in Oak Point.
Denton ISD began the year
by naming its new high school
after former Superintendent
Ray Braswell and the campus
athletic complex for former ed-
ucator and coach Bill Carrico.
In April, the district an-
nounced Lesli Guajardo as
Braswell High’s new principal,
and she’s hired nine other staff
members and overseen the de-
liberations for the school colors
(red and black) and mascot
(Bengals).
In May, the school board an-
nounced the district’s 23rd ele-
mentary school would be
named for Catherine Bell, a re-
tired Denton ISD educator and
longtime community activist.
Denton ISD wasn’t the only
school district with construc-
tion projects in 2015.
In September, Argyle ISD
hosted a ribbon-cutting and
dedication ceremony for its new
high school indoor activity cen-
ter, baseball and softball fields,
tennis courts and other athletic
improvements.
Construction on some of the
projects was suspended for sev-
eral weeks to conduct a safety
review after a construction
worker was killed in a structure
collapse, and a fatal accident in
which a worker was struck by a
tractor-trailer less than a week
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of roadway already clogged with
student pedestrians and vehicle
traffic during drop-off and pick-
up times at the school.
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Texas Woman’s University Chancellor Carine Feyten and Denton ISD Superintendent Jamie Wilson finalize the deal for the
Pioneer Promise program on Nov. 1L Under the program, TWU grants admission to the top 30 percent of high school juniors at
Denton’s high schools.
UNT, TWU offer automatic
college admission
Students in Denton County
now have another reason to at-
tend college closer to home. The
University of North Texas and
Texas Woman’s University an-
nounced partnerships with area
school districts in 2015 that will
automatically admit high school
juniors at the top of their class.
UNT announced that Au-
brey and Denton were the first
districts in the county to join its
Eagle Advantage plan. The pro-
gram admits high school ju-
niors in the top 20 percent of
their class.
To date, 17 school districts in
the North Texas area have
joined the partnership, includ-
ing Kram, Lewisville and Pilot
Point. Annually, a $1,000 schol-
arship is offered to an Eagle Ad-
vantage student at each partici-
pating high school.
In November, Denton ISD
became the first district to part-
ner with TWU for its Pioneer
Promise program. Through the
program, TWU grants admis-
sion to the top 30 percent of
high school juniors at Denton’s
high schools. Each high school
principal was also presented
with a renewable $2,000 schol-
arship to award to a student at-
tending TWU in fall 2016.
Both UNT’s and TWU’s pro-
grams require that students
complete a formal application
and submit college entrance test
scores before being granted au-
tomatic admission.
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Catherine Bell, left, tears up while Effie McQueen sings “Give
Me My Flowers” during an event in her honor in August at the
American Legion Senior Center. Denton ISD is naming the dis-
trict’s 23rd elementary school after Bell, a longtime educator.
The campus in Little Elm will open in the fall.
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In May, Argyle ISD broke
ground on a $29.5 million,
150,000-square-foot
school, slated to open in August
2016 in Flower Mound’s Can-
yon Falls development. All pro-
jects are part of a $45 million
bond package approved by vot-
ers in 2014.
In Kram, construction is un-
derway on a 12,000-square-foot
expansion at the high school.
The school board in October ap-
proved more than $2 million in
general funds for the addition,
which is expected to be ready for
the start of the 2016-17 school
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The sidewalk from the entrance to Ryan High School turns
west along East McKinney Street but just stops about 30 feet
down the busy road.
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Parents advocate
for student safety
Accidents near Ryan High
School and a proposed apart-
ment complex across from
Guyer High School pushed par-
ents to voice concerns about pe-
destrian safety along Denton
roadways in 2015.
Two Ryan High students
were hit by a vehicle while walk-
ing along East McKinney
Street, getting the attention of
residents as well as city officials.
While the high school has side-
walks on its property, there are
none on McKinney leading to
the school, and the lack of a safe
route to the campus has been an
issue since it opened in 1996.
There’s been a plan to widen
against administrators, addi-
tional police presence on cam-
puses and a national debate on
the dress code that played out in
blogs and on local television and
network cable shows.
Phillip Rolen of Providence
Village expressed concerns to
Aubrey ISD officials in October
after his 11-year-old twin daugh-
ters were told that wearing
hooded jackets with the U.S. Air
Force symbol on the back was
against the dress code.
While Rolen, an Air Force
veteran, was frustrated his
daughters couldn’t support the
military in their dress to school,
district officials argued the jack-
ets weren’t a matter of honoring
the military but of violating
dress code parameters set by the
district. Under the decade-old
policy, students were allowed to
wear clothing to school with
logos, as long as the logo mea-
sured no more than 1.5 by 1.5
inches.
The story made headlines,
and Rolen and his daughters
discussed the topic on Fox
News’ Fox & Friends. Military
supporters protested the school
while some local parents
showed support for the district.
At the superintendent’s dis-
cretion, Aubrey ISD later an-
nounced it would modify its
dress code and allow students to
wear military logos of any size
on hoodies at school until the
dress code is revisited.
the roadway and possibly install
sidewalks for years, but con-
struction has never gotten un-
derway.
Earlier this month the Den-
ton City Council passed a reso-
lution to request that the Texas
Department of Transportation
transfer to the city ownership of
the McKinney Street project
leading to Ryan High, including
$18 million budgeted for the
project.
In September, parents,
teachers and nearby home-
owners expressed their opposi-
tion to a proposed apartment
complex across the street from
Guyer High. They argued it
would add several hundred ve-
hicles to Teasley Lane, a stretch
year.
Jacket controversy
makes headlines
School board members in
Aubrey intend to pick up a dis-
cussion on the district dress
code policy sometime in the
spring. This fall, a dispute about
the dress code led to threats
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