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TheTop10 4 Congratulations to Kimberlin Academy for Excellence’s LuAnn Engleman and Sam Houston Middle School’s Debra Howard for earning Elementary and Secondary Teacher of the Year titles from Texas PTA, two of the organization’s five Outstanding Educator awards for 2016. The new GISD Ready Wi-Fi Partners GISD offers comprehensive special education services to children from birth through age 21. For more information, call 972-487-3300 or email [email protected]. program seeks local organizations and businesses willing to offer free Internet to district students. Partners will receive a window placard and be featured on the GISD website for easy identification and patronage. Contact [email protected] or 972-494-8566 for more information. In May, approximately 5,000 students took nearly 11,000 AP exams. Those numbers show a 180 percent and 221 percent increase from 2013, respectively. The district hopes to continue this increase with an additional $537,000 grant from the Texas Instruments Foundation. It will bring the National Math and Science Initiative College Readiness program to GISD’s remaining three high schools— Garland, Rowlett and Sachse—in 2016-17, providing test prep and monetary incentives for passing scores. If and when c encourages it problem- resolution. Th involved party. A campus administr if the concern remains. Step three invo Administrators. They can be reached at 9 In 1989, the back-to-school edition of Educatio This fall, her son Ben (left) enters first grade at th connected