After more than 75 years, SAISD will shutter the school named for the first African American awarded the Navy Cross.
The ceremony was moving and it lasted an hour. Students, parents and staff bid farewell to a school named for an African American war hero, soon to close after more than 75 years as a fixture on San Antonio ’s East Side . Dominic Williams said he “cried like a baby” at the sendoff, surrounded by 200 others with ties to Dorie Miller Elementary School .
million in HVAC costs estimated for SAISD schools The crowd laughed when Earl Bullock, the school’s principal from 1982 to 1998, said he was amazed “how many young men remember being swatted with the ‘board of education.’ ” His overall experience at Miller was rewarding, including the creation of Earth Day activities, an astronomy club and a competitive chess team, and the adoption of a school motto, a quote by the Rev.
Tough decisions’ could include cuts or freezes in SAISD budget The district hasn’t decided on a future for the campus — a committee has been formed to study how to repurpose the shuttered properties — but it already has left a neighborhood legacy. Nearby, there’s a small Dorie Miller city community center that opened in 1997, a residential thoroughfare called Dorie Street and a new housing development named Dorie Commons.
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