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Access to Child Care Creates Economic Mobility

Early childhood education is a critical component of achieving our True North Goal of increased living wage attainment among young adults in Dallas County, and it starts with expanding access to high-quality [...]
New Data Show A Decade Of Growth In Dallas County

Years of data have made clear that educational attainment, the highest level of education an individual receives, is one of the strongest factors determining lifetime [...]

During its five-year anniversary celebration on March 28, Dallas County Promise announced its plan to expand by inviting additional campuses to the initiative that helps [...]

In a new article, Economic Mobility Systems Board Chair and Commit Superintendent-In-Residence Dr. Jeannie Stone makes the case for personalized college and career solutions. By [...]

My Promise Path is a series where graduates reflect on their experience with the Dallas County Promise, which is a coalition of school districts, colleges [...]

Today, the Aim Hire Texas Policy Coalition, a network of over forty partners comprising business leadership and education advocates spanning the entire state – including [...]

Rural school systems have the passion and dedication, but not always the resources, to improve college, career, and military-readiness outcomes and successful postsecondary transitions for [...]

New recommendations from the Texas Commission on Community College Finance (TCCCF) pave the way for comprehensive legislation to bolster the skilled workforce pipeline and Texas’ [...]

Texas is facing a skilled workforce shortage of 1.4 million jobs across the state. Our state’s community and technical colleges are uniquely positioned to address [...]

As the Development and Communications Coordinator at Bachman Lake Together, Vanessa Larez helps connect philanthropic resources with strategies to support high-quality early education in Dallas’ [...]

Joe May, Chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District, and Mark Flanagan, Director, IT, Innovation, and Solutions for the Dallas County Promise, are presenting [...]

College advisors from Cedar Hill ISD, DeSoto ISD, Grand Prairie ISD, Education is Freedom, and Academic Success Program came together as an Impact & Improvement Network to [...]

The 2015-2016 school year brought many reasons to celebrate, including an increase in FAFSA/TAFSA completion rates in five districts and an increase in college enrollment after the hard-to-navigate summer [...]