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Some Dallas ISD students are learning some valuable lessons without opening a book. NBC 5’s Noelle Walker visited the class that’s been giving back to the community for nearly two decades.

The woodshop at Dallas ISD’s Career Institute South was a symphony of scroll saws, sanders, and drills as students worked on the pieces of rocking horses to give to children at the Ronald McDonald House.

Whether public or private, neighborhood campus or a special one, there are options on how to educate your kids. Dallas and Fort Worth ISD are offering education options.

To help fight hunger among children in Dallas during the holidays, Dallas ISD announced it has families in need covered.

To help fight hunger among children in Dallas during the holidays, Dallas ISD announced it has families in need covered.

On Monday the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that human remains found near I-20 in Mesquite on Oct. 12 belonged to Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, 24, who had been missing for weeks.

This isn’t just math! In Chenay Taylor’s class, students tackle big problems with big numbers and formulas.

Brag About Your School takes NBC 5 education reporter Wayne Carter to Skyline High School in Dallas ISD where teachers bring the real world into class to help students embrace and excel at math.

The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the human remains found near a wooded area of I-20 in Mesquite last month belong to Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga. NBC 5’s Sophia Beausoleil has more about the Dallas ISD employee who disappeared at the end of September.

Remember the board game Operation with the guy with the big buzzer nose? Well teachers in one North Texas school are using a similar concept to help teach human anatomy to first graders. NBC 5 education reporter Wayne Carter explains it’s all part of the new curriculum Dallas ISD is using to teach and test complex subjects at an early...

NBC 5’s Ben Russell tells us about the event honoring the record-setting sprinter.

Are schools making massives gains after COVID. It’s a discussion that’s led Texas to consider taking money away from so-called per performing schools and redirecting to private ones. NBC 5’s Wayne Carter takes a look at the back and forth that has developed between Dallas’ top school leader, and the states education executive.

This year, like every year, Texas Education Commissioner and Dallas’ very own Mike Morath comes home and gives a speech to the business community on how schools across Texas are fairing.

A North Texas mom is thankful her little boy is alive after the quick actions of a Dallas ISD employee who saved him from choking. The frightening moment on a school bus has already made a lasting impact on everyone. NBC 5’s David Goins has the story.

Teachers are handling a state program devoted to helping young students learn to read.

School superintendents and state education leaders may seem to be at odds over everything these days, but there is one thing they’re agreeing on. NBC 5 education reporter Wayne Carter reports on how teachers are handling a state program devoted to helping young students learn to read.

A Dallas ISD bus driver is being called a hero after saving a 7-year-old who started choking on his way to school. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards sat down with hte little boy and his mom who says the driver was in the right place at the right time.

On the morning of Sept. 29, surveillance video from a Dallas ISD school bus shows the moment that Preston swallows a quarter and begins to choke.

Where woods and farmland line Lawson Road just off I-20 in Mesquite, police announced the discovery of human remains Friday.

Mesquite Police said the discovery was made by Seagoville Police Thursday evening as they searched for missing Dallas ISD teacher’s assistant Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga.