By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Yeah, it may be pretty and all, but it goes on for another 23 lines! Why couldn’t Billy Shakespeare just cut to the chase: “Juliet is a hotty!” That’s the approach […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A QUINLAN – For a while, there were no Friday night lights at Boles High School. They couldn’t afford them. Boles is part of the poorest school district in Texas. Years ago, someone figured out the school could save money on electricity if the field lights weren’t turned on […]
By Joshua Benton and Tiara M. Ellis Staff Writers Page 35A A Dallas fire captain died Thursday after he helped fight a house fire in Far North Dallas. Capt. Michael L. DePauw, 51, was rushed to Medical City Dallas Hospital as CPR was administered. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 9:04 p.m. Fire […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A EL PASO – One of the perks of becoming a math teacher at Del Valle High School in El Paso: You’ll never have to write a test again. The math department chairwoman writes them all for you. Along with your entire curriculum. And what you’ll be teaching every […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A To call the boy shy would be understating the case. When he arrived at Irving’s Lamar Middle School, the sixth-grader sat in the back of his classes. He spoke to no one. “He’d just sit down with the hood of his sweat shirt over his head,” math teacher […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 26A Republican businessman Jeb Hensarling defeated Democrat Ron Chapman in the contentious race to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House, and incumbents of both parties swept to easy victories across North Texas on Tuesday. Mr. Hensarling topped Mr. Chapman, a retired judge, by a comfortable margin, with […]
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By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A Animal House at the University of North Texas just got tamed. Officials have banned alcohol from all common areas of the university’s seven fraternity houses because of a rise in underage drinking. In addition, UNT announced Thursday that it was suspending the local chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 15A Hey, kid, think you’re pretty smart? Want to join the National Honor Society – a prestigious bunch that does good work and looks awfully nice on your college applications? Well, if you’re a home-schooler, you’re out of luck. NHS won’t take you. That’s why a group of Houston-area […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 23A RICHARDSON — Failing grades. Parents who aren’t involved. Feeling isolated from the rest of the school. Pregnancy. It wasn’t hard for the educators at Wednesday’s dropout prevention forum to say why some kids quit school. Figuring out how to keep them in class – that has proved harder. […]
By Joshua Benton Staff Writer Page 1A Nearly 10,000 North Texas third-graders – about one in six – are at risk of failing the state’s new reading test, according to a Dallas Morning News survey of area school districts. If they can’t pass the test, new rules could keep some of those 9-year-olds from advancing […]