22 Oct 2009
Students, Faculty and Staff join with the Community to Plant 50 New Trees on Campus
DALLAS—Students, faculty and staff at W.W. Samuell High School worked with community members to plant 50 new trees on campus.
Based on the environmental benefits, these trees have an estimated economic value of more than $100,000 and planting them helps Samuell become a negative carbon footprint school. A carbon footprint is a calculation of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced measured in units of carbon dioxide.
Samuell was chosen as a tree planting site by the Texas Trees Foundation and AMEC Earth & Environment under the Roadmap to Tree Planning and Planting initiative.
"Dallas ISD students are showing improvement on college readiness indicators…and (the district) has shown improvement on Broad Prize indicators. Among the comparison Texas urban districts, only Houston ISD slightly outperforms Dallas ISD."
-National Center for Educational Achievement
December 2008