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Dallas Superintendent Hopes To Launch Tech High School

Superintendent Michael Hinojosa
Superintendent Michael Hinojosa

By Bill Zeeble, KERA News

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Dallas, TX – Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa says he wants to turn failing high school A. Maceo Smith into a new, high tek school for 400 students. It's a system from California that's now in several Texas schools as well.

Hinojosa says education is what's called project-based.

Hinojosa: It's not a like a normal traditional high school. You won't have algebra II homework every night. In a previous school district, when I was superintendent, we took a third of 9th graders and for a whole year they worked on 3 projects. They had to build a model of an ancient civilization, they had to conduct a murder trial, and they had to build a robot.

Hinojosa says enrollment would not be like a Magnet school. Any one can get in, up to the maximum number of students. But they must also agree to the different standards. Hinojosa hopes to secure federal grant funds for the new high school.

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