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In September of 2011, newly-elected Mayor Mike Rawlings and I announced the formation of the Commit Partnership. We did so in the belief that the educational challenges our community faced were too [...]
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Cedar Hill ISD made substantial year-over-year gains in reading and math across grade levels on this year’s STAAR exam. And Superintendent Gerald Hudson believes he [...]

Research indicates that early understanding of math concepts is the most powerful predictor of later school success. Algebra in particular equips students with abstract reasoning [...]

In 2011, Dallas ISD was at a crossroads. Its superintendent had just announced his departure. Its school board elections were canceled due to a lack [...]

Hope in Accountability is a series spotlighting schools that made tremendous improvements in their TEA accountability ratings from 2019 to 2022. Visit Commit’s Hope Chart [...]

Hope in Accountability is a series spotlighting schools that made tremendous improvements in their TEA accountability ratings from 2019 to 2022. Visit Commit’s Hope Chart [...]

Hope in Accountability is a series spotlighting schools that made tremendous improvements in their TEA accountability ratings from 2019 to 2022. Visit Commit’s Hope Chart [...]

An innovative policy proposed by the Dallas ISD administration last year and adopted by its Board of Trustees is helping district leaders provide greater transparency [...]

Master Teacher Monday is a series highlighting educators who have earned the designation of ‘master teacher’ through Texas’ Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA). TIA encourages school [...]

The Texas Urban Council of Superintendents (TUC) was created in the early seventies to encourage discussion and collaboration in order to improve academic outcomes among [...]

The yearly release of results from our state’s standardized STAAR exam provides Texas families, leaders, and voters an opportunity to learn how our schools are [...]

Dallas County is experiencing a shortage of early childhood education (ECE) teachers. According to estimates from the Dallas College Labor Market Intelligence, approximately 4,300 ECE [...]

Dallas College is making history with its new teacher apprenticeship program – the first program of its kind in Texas. Responding to a community wide [...]