A Texas Tech business student has received a hefty scholarship. The Texas Business Hall of Fame will award fifteen scholarships, including one to Rawls College of Business student Kara Neff. Neff will receive a ten thousand dollar scholarship from the Business Hall of Fame, which gives scholarships to future entrepreneurs and leaders to keep Texas [...]
The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees named two new coaches to the staff of Monterey High School today. Kent Meador has been named as the new head baseball coach, and Steve Mims will lead the softball program. Meador is currently the head baseball coach at Klein Collins High School in Spring ISD. He graduated from [...]
Two new area superintendents take their posts today. Dr. Karen Garza, Lubbock ISD Superintendent comes to the Hub City from Houston, where she was the Chief Academic Officer for Houston ISD. She replaces retiring superintendent Wayne Havens. Also, Frenship ISD’s new superintendent, Dr. David Vroonland begins work today. He comes to Lubbock from Allen, where [...]
RISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
STUDENTS ACHIEVE 98% PASS RATE ON FIRST ROUND OF TAKS TESTS
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Nearly all of Rise Academy’s 3rd, 5th and 8th grade students passed the TAKS
reading tests that were administered in early March.
A high percentage of Rise students also achieved “commended” scores (90
percent correct or above) on these TAKS tests. 100 [...]