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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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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 [...]

The Dallas County Learning Community (DCLC) is a new collaboration of area public school districts highly focused on continuous improvement to help the region exceed [...]

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, our public education system was disrupted to such an extent that, in spite of the best efforts of [...]

“We all know if we were to ask the question, are students of color or students in poverty less gifted? We would all answer that [...]

“The first day I had two students who asked ‘Okay miss, are you the new college advisor? And I was like, ‘Yeah, I guess that's [...]