BY CECILIA LENZEN
Your heart care. The way you want it. Where you
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Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde greets students.
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To comply with a new state law, Dallas ISD has implemented stricter penalties for students caught vaping on campus, within 300 feet of school property or at Dallas ISD implements new vaping penalties
caught with a vape device must be placed in their district’s disciplinary alternative education program, or DAEP. DISD students caught with a vape will be required to attend a minimum five-day substance use intervention program. Parents will be required to participate in a half-day orientation to have their student’s placement modified. If a student is caught with a vape a second time, they will be required to serve a full DAEP placement, and their parents must participate in a substance use informational session. A full DAEP placement for students from age 6 up to fifth grade is 20 days. For sixth to 12th grades, the placement is 30 days.
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During its Aug. 24 meeting, the board of trustees amended the district’s student code of conduct to align with House Bill 114, which was signed into law earlier this year. Under the new law, students
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Dallas ISD officials seek more funding the basic allotment, per the reso- lution. The per-student allotment that public schools receive is
Dallas ISD officials are calling on state legislators to prioritize funding for public schools. What happened DISD trustees voted Sept. 28 to approve a resolution asking for increased funding from the Texas Legislature for public schools. In the special session beginning Oct. 9, legislators should increase
$6,160 and has not changed since 2019 while inflation has gone up 19% since then. Instead of increasing funding, state legislators have focused on a school voucher system that trustees described as “private school subsidies.”
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