With eight new college academies, Dallas ISD is at last competing for middle class

The oft-maligned Dallas public school system is on a roll.

Not only can DISD boast the nation’s best high school for the fifth year in a row, according to a yearly ranking by U.S. News and World Report, but the nation’s 16th-largest school district is stepping up its game in other ways

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