DFW residents have been patiently waiting for the sprawling new pedestrian and cycling trail that will connect the metroplex. While the trail is still a work in progress, the trail now has an official name. After asking North Texas to help pick the new name, it was announced this week the trail will now be called “DFW Discovery Trail.”
The new 66-mile trail that will connect Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving and Grand Prairie won’t be completed until 2024, but at least now the metroplex knows what it will be called. Back in the spring, the North Central Texas Council of Governments narrowed it to two possibilities and asked residents to vote on the new name. According to NBC DFW, “DFW Discovery Trail” narrowly beat out “DFW Trinity Trail” with 51% of the vote.
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While the trail has been in the works since 2013, planning began back in the 1990s. Now, it is less than two years away from being completed.
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Two Northeast Tarrant County school districts are reviewing some controversial policy changes, many of them dealing with books that will be available to students.
The Grapevine-Colleyville ISD Board of Trustees is expected to vote on several new policies relating to issues that have become hot-button political issues in recent years.
According to the proposed changes, teachers and staffers could use someone's preferred pronouns but would not be required to.
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Topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity would be off-limits unless everyone in the class has completed fifth grade. And any teaching of the 1619 Project, or Critical Race Theory, would be prohibited altogether.
A little further west in the Keller ISD, the board there will be voting on guidelines on library content. Last week, the district attracted national controversy when it pulled 41 books, including all versions of the Bible and a graphic adaptation of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
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