ROYSE CITY – Royse City ISD Superintendent Randy Hancock announced this week that he will retire from his position this June. He informed school board members at their meeting Monday night. Tuesday morning he told staff members, and then he made a public announcement at the Royse City Chamber of Commerce luncheon the same day. [...]

(The Texas Tribune) – In 2004, Karla Reséndiz graduated near the top of her class at Rockwall High School outside of Dallas. She was a member of the National Honor Society, captain of the fencing team and the leader of the school’s junior Rotary Club. From there, Reséndiz went on to earn a doctor of [...]

ROCKWALL – The five year-old Shannon Elementary kindergarten student who was missing for three and a half hours yesterday after the first day of school was found safe and sound at about 7 pm at the Boys & Girls Club, after he somehow boarded the wrong school bus. According to Rockwall ISD Communications Director Sheri [...]

(WFAA-TV News) ROCKWALL — Following his first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Derrick Hood was supposed to board an after-school daycare bus outside Shannon Elementary in Rockwall Monday afternoon. He never got on that bus. The incident was reported right away by the daycare bus driver, but Derrick remained missing more than three hours later. MORE

ROCKWALL – Rockwall ISD has named two new principals for the 2011-12 school year at Sharon Shannon Elementary School and Amanda Rochell Elementary School. At Shannon, Carla Bennett replaces Katrina Hasley, who has been named the district’s new Director of Accountability, Assessment and Professional Development. Sherry Packer replaces previous Rochelle principal Terry Peters, who has [...]

ROCKWALL — Anticipating a $15.7 million state funding cut over the next two years, the Rockwall ISD Board of Trustees passed a $101,171,531 general fund budget Thursday night, 5-0, at its board meeting and public hearing. Two board members were unable to attend. There were no comments from the public at the sparsely-attended, 30-minute meeting [...]

ROCKWALL – A benefit picnic dinner will be held June 10 for 10-year-old Hannah Rathje, a Celia Hays Elementary School student who was just diagnosed with a rare form of muscular cancer called Synovia Sarcoma. She is pictured above with her 4th grade teachers Schauna Callaway, Debbie Barineau and Jane Braddock. The dinner will be [...]

ROCKWALL – Presidential Academic Award Winners, who earned an “A” average in all subjects throughout their elementary school years at Dorris A. Jones Elementary School and a commended performance on state assessments are (from left): Jacob Allen, Jeremi Ntibagaye, Xaviera Hernandex and Kaitlyn Strother, pictured with principal Angela Marcellus. Click photo to enlarge.    

ROCKWALL – In keeping with the spirit of giving back to the community, the students and Math Department at Williams Middle School recently raised $5,342.17 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis TN. The mission of the 78-bed hospital, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, is to find cures for children [...]

AUSTIN – Texas House-Senate lawmaker budget negotiators voted 9-1 yesterday for a two-year state budget that would cut Rockwall and Royse City ISD state funding, as well as overall Texas school funding, by 8 percent. Cuts are less than were feared as a result of last minute accounting maneuvers. Rockwall ISD administrators had feared cuts [...]