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Jasmine Price is a single mother with three children including Uplift Hampton first-grader, Jacob Price. When Jacob was younger, Ms. Price needed to work to support her family, but she struggled to find personalized care for him that she could afford. She enrolled Jacob in ChildCareGroup, and from age three to five, he received early-childhood […]
Read MoreScholars at four Uplift Education campuses will get to hone their problem-solving skills next year in new Maker Space Innovation labs made possible by a special collaboration with the Leadership Dallas Class of 2014, a civic awareness program run by the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce. Each member of this year’s Leadership Dallas class donated […]
Read MoreKyle Evans-Jennings, is an Uplift Hampton graduate who applied to 43 different universities throughout the United States and, to-date, was accepted to more than half. In May, Kyle announced his intention to go to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia along with the announcements of 388 other Uplift seniors at College Signing Day. Kyle had been flown out […]
Read MoreWalking into Bart Scott’s Project Lead the Way (PLTW) class, the first thing that meets the eye are mechanical parts of various sizes, wires, clips and computers. As the lead teacher for Project Lead The Way at Uplift Hampton Preparatory, Bart Scott employs a number of tools in order to inspire in his scholars a true love for […]
Read MoreUplift Hampton’s 6th grade science teacher Suzanne Weathers has always had an exceptional singing voice. In high school she attended the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art in New York, one of the most prestigious performing arts high schools in the nation. While she was a vocal artist on the outside, internally there was […]
Read MoreDiBrieka Miller, a 2013 graduate of Uplift Hampton Prep in southern Dallas, is the first person in her family to enroll in college. She attends Texas Woman’s University in Denton, and when you talk to her can see the determination in her eyes as she pursues a psychology degree so she can someday become a […]
Read MoreJillian Sansivero is an eleventh grade, AP Language teacher, at Uplift Hampton. She started her career teaching a full day at Martin Luther King Jr. High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice in New York, while attending Teachers College at Columbia University. Teaching and attending classes full-time, became an almost overwhelming task as she […]
Read MoreWith all eyes on Dallas on this Friday, Uplift students from across the network will be remembering John F. Kennedy with art. Under the guidance of art teachers Lynn McClain and Jibril Rasheed from Uplift Peak Preparatory, Lauren Thompson from Uplift Hampton, and Monica Patterson and Kelsey Storms from Uplift Infinity, nearly 200 pieces of […]
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