2 Mar 2010
Garza is a former Dallas ISD Board Trustee
DALLAS–Dallas Independent School District will host a naming ceremony for the Trinidad "Trini" Garza Early College High School at Mountain View College, at 2 p.m. Wed., March 10. The celebration will take place at Mountain View College at 4849 W. Illinois Ave. in the Performance Hall on the college's east campus.
Superintendent of Schools Michael Hinojosa, Dallas ISD Board Trustees and Trinidad "Trini" Garza, will gather at the celebration with students, representatives of Dallas County Community College District and community members.
The event commemorates the board of trustees' naming of Early College High School at Mountain View College for Trinidad Garza, a well-known civic leader, businessman and former member of the Dallas ISD board of trustees. Garza, an engineer by profession, has served for three decades as a vocal advocate for progress for the city's Hispanic community.
In a partnership with the DCCCD, Dallas ISD opened Early College High School on the Mountain View College campus in 2006 as one of several Texas early college campuses supported by the Texas High School Project. THSP supports the early college concept and other innovative models that promote increased high school completion and college enrollment.
One of two early college programs in Dallas ISD, Early College High School at Mountain View serves students who are the first in their families to seek a college education, or who may be at risk or economically disadvantaged. Currently, the school has an enrollment of approximately 400 students.
The program prepares students for college by immersing them in college-level classes and college culture at the same time they fulfill high school graduation requirements.