Malakoff ISD

By Russell Slatonrussell@themonitor.net

Monitor Photo/Russell SlatonMalakoff assistant football coach Chris Powers prepares to throw a pass to Aimes Airheart (right) toward the Tiger Stadium end zone.Monitor Photo/Russell SlatonMalakoff assistant football coach Everardo Garcia motions the summer camp attendees to line up for their next...

Courtesy Photo/Dr. Katherine Smith, Malakoff ISD

Monitor Photo/Russell SlatonDuring Feb. 18’s school board meeting, Malakoff ISD recognizes National School Counseling Week held Feb. 3-7 by honoring Malakoff Intermediate School and Malakoff Junior High Counselor Laura Smith (from left), Malakoff Elementary School Counselor Michelle Dickens and...

Monitor Photo/ Ashlee Sawyer The Malakoff ISD Board of Trustees cheer and applaud after a ribbon cutting signifying the grand opening of the high school during their ceremony held Sept. 3.

Courtesy Photos/Malakoff ISD Facebook Malakoff High School incoming senior Hillary Dawson (at left, with her Malakoff coach, Tommy Cross) competes at the Texas Girls Coaches Association All-Star Basketball Game at Arlington Lamar High School, held June 25.

Monitor Photo/Russell Slaton Debra Wilson, who will become the principal of Malakoff ISD’s newest campus, Malakoff Intermediate School, officially starts July 1. Wilson has been with MISD since 2002 and most recently taught eighth grade U.S. History.

Monitor Photo/Russell Slaton Malakoff ISD trustees heard a proposal July 17 to lease the district’s Leo Orr Sr. Education Center, which was originally the site of the segregation-era African American high school, later morphing into the integrated junior high school.

Monitor Photo/Russell Slaton Jason Hayes (left), a 1996 Malakoff High School graduate, is welcomed to the Malakoff ISD school board Aug. 15 by Board President Jason Dalrymple, after Hayes was sworn in to fill the term of former trustee Jerry Spiva, who resigned from the board.