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Bennett out as Sherman ISD superintendent
The board of trustees for the Sherman Independent School District have approved a “voluntary separation agreement” with Superintendent Tyson Bennett. The move comes in the wake of controversy over Bennett’s efforts last fall to keep a transgender senior at Sherman High School, Max Hightower, from playing a lead male role in the school’s planned production of Oklahoma! Bennett, who became superintendent two years ago, has been suspended with pay since early March as trustees debated what action...
Bennett out as Sherman ISD superintendent
The board of trustees for the Sherman Independent School District have approved a “voluntary separation agreement” with Superintendent Tyson Bennett. The move comes in the wake of controversy over Bennett’s efforts last fall to keep a transgender senior at Sherman High School, Max Hightower, from playing a lead male role in the school’s planned production of Oklahoma! Bennett, who became superintendent two years ago, has been suspended with pay since early March as trustees debated what action...
SheDFW debuts with staged reading at Resource Center on Tuesday night
SheDFW is the newest chapter of SheNYCArts. The collective will debut Tuesday evening with a staged reading of Let Me In by Zander Pryor. Performance is at 7:30 p.m. at RC for one night only. But first, what is SheDFW? That’s answered more by what SheNYCArts is. From its website: We’re a femme-led 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that fights for gender equity in the arts & entertainment industry. We focus most of our support on the original creators — playwrights, composers, and...
Virtue in a refugee, peril in a ‘patriot’
America is enriched by its immigrants Too many Americans are afraid of the wrong people, and it endangers our republic. I think of this on a spring evening as I text Fatima, a trans woman in Nairobi. She needs to go to a hospital; I send her transport money as I hear shouts from the soccer field around the corner. Health issues often accompany the poverty of someone like Fatima, who fled from Burundi to Kenya due to hatred and violence fueled in part by right-wing American evangelicals. I sent...
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RC’s Cece Cox among Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum’s “In Her Shoes” honorees
On Wednesday morning, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum announced its “In Her Shoes” honorees, celebrating women who have contributed to the Dallas-Fort Worth community. In conjunction with the Museum’s special exhibition Walk this Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, organized by the New-York Historical Society and currently on display, “In Her Shoes” recognizes the work and impact of 12 notable female leaders in the area along with each of their...
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SheDFW debuts with staged reading at Resource Center on Tuesday night
SheDFW is the newest chapter of SheNYCArts. The collective will debut Tuesday evening with a staged reading of Let Me In by Zander Pryor. Performance is at 7:30 p.m. at RC for one night only. But first, what is SheDFW? That’s answered more by what SheNYCArts is. From its website: We’re a femme-led 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that fights for gender equity in the arts & entertainment industry. We focus most of our support on the original creators — playwrights, composers, and...
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