Announcements
Graduate Highlight: Maria Contreras overcomes obstacles at Akins
By Gabriella Beker with additional reporting Kathy Swartz and Sydney Kim Three and a half years ago, Maria Contreras and her family started a new life in the United States. As political asylum seekers from Venezuela, they had to give up everything they knew…
ÁùºÏ±¦µä ISD UpClose program celebrates 32 new graduates
More than 30 ÁùºÏ±¦µä ISD community members graduated today through the district’s UpClose program, which offers a front-row view of district operations. The 32 Up Close graduates completed a year-old program to learn about the district's infrastructure…
Graduate Highlight: Evan Craig is breaking barriers at ÁùºÏ±¦µä High
Evan Craig is creating important dialogues about racial justice at ÁùºÏ±¦µä High School. Craig has been the president of the Black Student Alliance at ÁùºÏ±¦µä High School for three consecutive years and is currently treasurer of the Student Council. He was also…
Graduate Highlight: Aseel Rawashdeh innovates at Anderson / Graduanda destacada: Aseel Rawashdeh innova en Anderson
By Gabriella Beker and Kathy Swartz Aseel Rawashdeh is focused on making innovations that change the world. Rawashdeh, a graduating senior at Anderson High School, has been competing in science fairs since middle school, when she discovered her…
Graduate Highlight: ÁùºÏ±¦µä Tharp makes the grade at Northeast
Balancing classroom and on-court performance can sometimes be challenging, but Northeast Early College High School senior ÁùºÏ±¦µä Tharp encompasses what a student-athlete is all about. ÁùºÏ±¦µä is a two-year varsity basketball player, has run cross country,…
Middle schoolers get a peek of early college
Most kids don’t make their college decisions until their senior years. ÁùºÏ±¦µä ISD eighth graders, though, are getting to choose colleges when they pick their high schools in what’s called the Early College High School program.
Fourteen ÁùºÏ±¦µä Schools Celebrate Graduation
Many ÁùºÏ±¦µä ISD students had to demonstrate resilience this school year, but it was perhaps best illustrated Wednesday evening when Anderson High School students sang the national anthem in the dark, with cell phone flashlights from the stands the only light…
Anderson High School Class of 2021 Graduation (Video)
"I mean the lights turned off, mics went out and everything. We had to use a megaphone." - Anderson graduate Kelby Hickerson
ÁùºÏ±¦µä Community Looks Forward to In-Person Graduations
Iva Sanchez, a senior at Crockett Early College High School, did not expect to have an in person graduation. But when ÁùºÏ±¦µä announced earlier this year ceremonies would be in person, she said she felt grateful and excited to share the moment with her friends…