Dallas ISD

The Singing Hills Are Alive With Low-Priced Investment Flip

By April Towery / September 7, 2019 /

It can be challenging to find updated investment properties in Dallas that don’t need a lot of rehab, but this Carioca Drive diamond in the rough is ready to go and priced in the 100s. Featuring three bedrooms and one and one-half bathrooms, this one-story home has “no known structural or other major issues,” according…

Local Law Firm Donates $50,000 To Build Food Pantry at Medrano Elementary

By CandysDirt / September 1, 2019 /

From staff reports A local attorney whose offices are only two blocks away from Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary School donated $50,000 to build a food pantry there, Dallas ISD announced last week. Todd Tracy, the head attorney at the Tracy Law Firm, wanted to do something for young residents of this neighborhood. He contacted Principal…

Dallas Investment Property Tops Weekend One Hundred

By April Towery / August 31, 2019 /

Clean and spacious three-bedroom homes with Dallas ZIP codes don’t often make it into the 100s – unless they’re classified as “cute” or a “fixer-upper.” This one is, in fact, cute, but it’s already fixed up and billed as a turn-key investment property. Listed by Juan Vega with Rendon Realty, the home at 9922 Hustead…

Renovated, Affordable Home Zoned for A-rated Gonzalez Elementary

By Bethany Erickson / August 31, 2019 /

Located in the Piedmont Addition, Dallas ISD’s Henry B. Gonzalez Elementary has a lot to celebrate — it just started its first year as a personalized learning academy, and even better, it was given an A grade this year by the Texas Education Agency. In fact, Gonzalez didn’t just earn an A — it also earned…

Why Should You Choose Your Neighborhood Dallas ISD School?

By Bethany Erickson / August 25, 2019 /

It happened again this week. Someone (in our comments section, no less) came in at a rate of speed somewhere between Miley Cyrus’s wrecking ball and the Kool-Aid man through a wall to utter this phrase: “Dallas ISD is failing.” Now, to anyone who has paid attention, we know this isn’t true. Anyone who is…