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June 10, 2010

BISD Web LinkThe Communications Department produces the employee newsletter "e-nlightened" each week so that staff can keep in touch with what is going on across the district. E-mail your pictures and a brief description to Communications and we will include them as space permits. 
 
Eight Birdville ISD schools participated in Education in Action's Experiential Learning Day Programs this school year.  Six schools took their fourth graders on the "Proud to be Texan" day program to Austin, and two schools took their fifth graders on the "Water Rocks" day program to the Cameron Park Zoo and Inner Space Cavern. 
 
>Holiday Heights Elementary
 
Texas alone at the top; only state to meet all college and career readiness measures.
Texas is the first, and so far, only state to meet all the American Diploma Project's five key college and career readiness measures, Achieve, a national bipartisan organization, announced recently.
 
In a report called Closing the Expectations Gap, Achieve said "Texas has the most comprehensive approach to college and career ready accountability." 
 
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Watauga Elementary was recently awarded a $4,700 grant from the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries to be used for bilingual books in their school library.
 
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Congratulations to North Ridge Middle School for being selected a 2010 Best Practice Making Middle Grades Work State Award. North Ridge earned this award based on their outstanding practice in the area of aligned academic core.
 
 
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