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Through a partnership with the YMCA of Greater Houston TUTS brings creative drama based residencies to after school programs throughout the city. Theatre Under The Stars merged with The River Performing and Visual Arts Center in 2010, creating a barrier free arts education model for non-profit musical theatre performing arts organizations.
A block in Downtown Houston is the new location for HSPVA. It formerly housed Sam Houston High School; at a later point the building housed the HISD headquarters. [25] The building is five stories and 168,000 square feet (15,600 m 2) in size, [26] at a cost of $88.4 million. [27] [28] Gensler Architects designed the building. [29]
Cockrell Butterfly Area, Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston is the official visitors’ center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Space Center Houston includes many interactive exhibits—including Moon rocks and a Space Shuttle simulator—in addition to special presentations that tell the story of NASA's crewed space flight program.
IDEA Public Schools, Inc. was founded by Tom Torkelson and JoAnn Gama, former Teach For America corps members, as a not‐for‐profit Texas corporation headquartered in Weslaco. [4] [1] Its mission was to create charter schools to serve impoverished students, starting in Donna, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley.
Two campuses are ranked in the top 100 in the nation and four are in Texas's top 20. [11] [12] Seven of YES Prep's high schools were named among the nation's most challenging high schools by The Washington Post. [13] [14] In 2010, Oprah Winfrey donated 1 million dollars each to six charter school systems, including YES Prep. [15]
As of 2017 KIPP Houston had 12,100 students, [24] Harmony Public Schools's Houston-area campuses had 11,000 students, [25] Yes Prep had 9,500 students, Houston Gateway Academy had about 1,900 students, Promise Community School had about 1,700 students, The Varnett School had about 1,700 students, and Excel Academy had 500 students.
Why did four Arlington teenagers decide to raise money to replant oak trees downed by last year’s devastating storms? Here’s their story. ‘Something to smile about’: Texas teens raise $65K ...