College Board President Gaston Caperton will present the award and a $25,000 check in the Furr HS auditorium at 9 am tomorrow. 520 Mercury

Alicia Hill Thomas named HISD's New Deputy Chief Academic Officer. Dr. Hill is coming from the North East ISD in San Antonio.

Washington HS Engineering Teacher Nghia Le wins H-E-B Excellence in Education Award. Read more: http://alturl.com/hm7sy Congrats, Dr. Le!

The Brown Foundation donates $950,000 to Apollo 20. The Foundation's gifts to Apollo to support intensive math tutoring now total $1.9 mil

The latest total on scholarships offered to HISD Seniors is (drum roll, please) more than $121 mil. Beating last year by $34 mil, so far.

Houston Endowment has pledged $6 million to the Apollo 20 School Turnaround Program, bringing the private donation total to $12 Million.

HISD summer schedule begins today. District offices are open Monday-Thursday from 7:30a to 6p. Offices are closed on Friday until Aug 5.

Final report on College Scholarships shows that HISD students were offered $126,337,855. That's $29.2 million more than last year.

College Board's Gov. Gaston Caperton writes about HISD's Furr HS and Principal Bertie Simmons http://alturl.com/m3ucm

The Cullen Foundation has donated $500,000 to support HISD's Apollo 20 Program. Total raised over the last 11 months is $12.5 million

Houston ISD has received approval for more than $70.6 mil. in Federal E-Rate funding, to help level the digital playing field for students

The Lanier Middle School Debate Team wins 9th straight national debate tournament. The tourney was held in Dallas over the weekend.

3 HISD schools make the "New" Newsweek Best High Schools List; Carnegie Vanguard, DeBakey and Challenge Early College HS.

We have just posted the full story about HISD students surpassing their peers on the Stanford and Aprenda exams. alturl.com/qpdxi

Media: Dr. Grier, Mayor Parker and Shell Oil will announce a major Back to School event at Gregory Lincoln (1001 Taft) tomorrow at 10 am

Media: Important news conference at 10 this a.m.at Gregory Lincoln (1001 Taft) City, HISD & Shell to announce major back to school event

HISD to Serve More Homegrown Fruits and Vegetables fb.me/BSRINbVL

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation named 34 HISD 2011 grads as National Merit Scholarship winners--up from 27 last year

Pat Fant of RFC Media, which created K12 Radio Houston for HISD, has been named to the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Congrats Pat.

HISD is interviewing candidates interested in becoming Apollo 20 Math Fellows. Interviews to be held tomorrow from 8a-1p at Sharpstown HS.