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Texas Governor
Rick Perry Helps Dedicate MANOR, TX -
Governor Rick Perry joined Manor ISD, the
Manor Educa Austin-based architecture and engineering firm, O'ConnellRobertson, is providing architecture and MEP engineering services for this first phase and Phase II of the New Tech High School. The school serves as a magnet high school focused on computer technology and project-based instruction and has a 1:1 student to computer ration. At full capacity, the project will serve 500 students in grades 9-12. The dedication Tuesday celebrated the opening of the first phase, which renovated an existing middle school campus to accommodate approximately 300 ninth and tenth grade students. Design is currently underway for Phase II of the Manor New Tech High School project which will open in August 2008. About O'Connell
Robertson
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tion
Foundation,
the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and other District partners in
dedicatingthe
Manor
New
Tech High School today. The New Tech High School represents one
of the proposed 35 schools scheduled to participate in the Texas
Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (T-STEM) initiative.The
$71 million project is designed to improve instruction and academic
performance at high schoolsacross the state. "As we open this
T-STEM Academy, it is clear that we are changing the face of education
in Texas," said Governor Perry. T-STEM was developed by the
Texas High
School Project, apublic-private
partnership working
to ensure that all Texas students leave high school prepared for
college and career.
