Dallas 500 Honoree and Executive Director of Trio Programs at UNT Dallas Nakia Douglas
Douglas has a wide range of education experience and involvement in programs servicing “non-traditional” students, their families, and their communities.
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Nakia Douglas’ education experience ranges from Teacher (Kinder, 1st, and 4th) to K – 12 Administrator (Elementary, Middle, Magnet, High School and Central Office) through the collegiate level. His efforts include several senior administrative positions in which he has developed and/or oversaw programs servicing “non-traditional” students, their families, and their communities.
Currently, Douglas serves as the Executive Director of TRIO and Pre-Collegiate Programs at the University of North Texas at Dallas. In this position, he is responsible for the development of Upward Bound, McNair Scholars, and Pre-Collegiate Program Partnerships to increase high
Updated: 10:00 AM EST January 11, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS Roncalli High School principal Chuck Weisenbach will take over as the new president of the school in July.
The school said a national search was conducted and Weisenbach was chosen. He takes over from Father Bob Robeson, interim president, and Dr. Joe Hollowell, who retired as president on June 30, 2020.
“Chuck Weisenbach is an incredibly talented person who is always thinking ahead,” Robeson said. “He is not afraid to challenge himself and those he serves. He is a great spokesman and leader for the Roncalli High School community.”
Weisenbach has served Roncalli for 37 years as a teacher, coach, assistant principal, and principal. He graduated from the school in 1979.
2020 Year-end Wrap Up Jan.-March Thursday, December 24, 2020 3:41 PM DeMaria made himself at home in Mandy Wrasmanâs first-grade class at Franklin Elementary school during his visit on Jan. 10. Students were building snowmen. (DHI Media file photo) Playgrounds across the state empty after a mandate by Governor Mike DeWine last Thursday to close all public and private schools as of the end of day March 17. Students took work home or will learn digitally for the next several weeks. (DHI Media/Joe Dray)
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Superintendent of NOLA Public Schools Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr., right, talks with other officials as they look at the new football field after the ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony of the newly built $48 million Edna Karr High School in New Orleans, La. Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The building includes 31 classrooms, four special education classrooms, two visual arts classrooms, four music/performance arts classrooms, a gymnasium and a new football field for 1,200 students. (Photo by Max Becherer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)
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Launching a successful public charter school in Stanley had long been a dream of retired East Gaston High School Principal Eddie McGinnis.
That dream came true in the late summer of 2019 when Community Public Charter School opened its doors to nearly 250 kindergarten through fifth grade students.
The inaugural year was only a little more than half complete, however, when the raging, worldwide pandemic known as COVID-19 turned the school and all the planning that had gone into it upside down.
“The Lord most definitely has a sense of humor,” said McGinnis, also the senior pastor at Community Pentecostal Center, as he and I talked in the office of assistant principal Monica Dellinger on a sparkling and frosty December morning.