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Sixty-four campuses earned Energy Star recertification in 2017-18 , making GISD the largest district in Texas to achieve the award for three years in a row . |
Congrats to Jolene Mollenkamp and Erin
Vejjajiva for claiming the highest honor awarded by the Texas Art Education Association , a Gold Seal , at the state Visual Arts Scholastic Event . Both are now being featured in a traveling exhibit along with just 150 other students statewide .
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Committed to helping families # ReadMoreTogether , GISD gifted over 10,000 books to students in prekindergarten-first grade at the beginning of summer break . The district also hosted workshops throughout the break to teach parents how to read with their children , and the Reading with Rodney mobile library made more than 80 stops around the district this summer . |
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Two Garland ISD schools are among the top in Texas according to a report released by the nonprofit Children at Risk . Out of more than 4,500 elementaries , Hillside and Kimberlin Academies for
Excellence ranked No . 4 and No . 6 in North Texas and No . 12 and No . 16 in the state , respectively .
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