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6 unusual facts about Dallas Independent School District


John F. Knott

Knott taught painting in Dallas public schools for almost twenty years.

Julien Paul Blitz

Blitz moved to Dallas in 1950, where he taught and coached music in the public schools and performed as a guest cellist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Mercantile National Bank Building

The Mercantile National Bank Building is within the Dallas Independent School District.

Nik Daum

From grade school through high school he participated in visual art programs through the magnet schools of the Dallas Independent School District.

P.C. Cobb Stadium

The 22,000 seat stadium was built of reinforced concrete under the Works Progress Administration program in 1939 and was used for high school sporting events of the Dallas Independent School District.

Tiffany Derry

Derry is also working with the Dallas Independent School District to improve their school lunch program in order to provide healthier options.


John Henry Brown

Brown Street, in Dallas's Oak Lawn neighborhood, was named for him, as was a public school: in 1912, the Dallas Independent School District opened John Henry Brown School, an elementary school, in South Dallas.


see also

Juanita Craft

Following the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Craft worked to integrate the University of Texas Law School and the Dallas Independent School District.

Justin F. Kimball

Justin F. Kimball High School - a school in Dallas, Texas, administered by the Dallas Independent School District