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After Years On State's Failing List, Dallas' Pinkston High School Turned Things Around

Lara Solt
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KERA News special contributor
The art class room at L.G. Pinkston High School in Dallas on April 4, 2018.

Once on the state’s list of failing schools, Pinkston High School in West Dallas has managed to turn things around, meeting state education standards for the past three years.

Now, with the nearby Edison Middle Learning Center closing, Pinkston is preparing to take in hundreds of younger students coming from the struggling school.

Read thefull story on Pinkston and explore more about failing schools in our in-depth education series, "The Race To Save Failing Schools."

Bill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.