Bill Althoff has been appointed as interim assistant superintendent for personnel and administration.
Irving Schools Television will air video study guides for adults preparing for the General Education Development (GED) exam. Guides are provided by Texas Center for Adult Literacy and will air at 3 p.m. each Sunday for 20 weeks on Time Warner Cable Channel 98 or Verizon FiOS Channel 33.
MacArthur women’s gymnastics team won seventh place at the 43rd Texas State Gymnastics Championships in Garland April 24-25.
Townley soccer team won second place in the Pan Bimbo Indoor Soccer Tournament April 26 in Euless.
Irving High JROTC provided the color guard and armed drill team at the opening ceremonies of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society Annual Convention April 16 at Gaylord Texas Convention Center.
Nimitz softball plays at 7 p.m. May 1 at Wylie in their first game of bi-district playoffs. Game two is 4 p.m. May 2 at Nimitz, with a third game (if needed) 30 minutes after the first.
Irving High softball plays a one-game series for their bi-district playoff at 7:30 p.m. , May 1 at Plano West.
Irving High baseball will host Duncanville 7 p.m. May 1 to determine 2nd and 3rd place for bi-district playoffs. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students for any of the four games.
Schulze McTeacher Night is 5-8 p.m. May 7 at the McDonalds located at 1308 E. Airport Freeway. Proceeds from the event are donated to projects at Schulze.
Pearl Choi, senior at MacArthur, won third place in Literary Criticism at the Region 1-5A UIL Academic Contest, and qualified for State UIL Academic Meet May 7-9 at University of Texas at Austin.
Karla Camarena, senior at the Academy, designed and coordinated an event where students from de Zavala, Irving High and the Academy created art work for auction to raise funds for the Savannah Exhibit at Dallas Zoo.
Kendrick Daniels, Virgilio Martinez, Oscar Jessie, Jarvis Motte, and Nick Haynes, track team members at Irving High, medaled in their respective events at district and qualified for regionals at Texas Tech May 1-2.
Alexis Jones, freshman at MacArthur, was invited by USA Basketball to participate in the 2009 U-16 National Team Trials May 28-31 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Breanna Fields, senior at MacArthur, was named to the National All-Star Gymnastics Team from Texas and will compete at Senior All-Star Gymnastics Championships in Chicago May 22-23.
