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March 29, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith
'If Not Edison -- What?'
Austin Interfaith's Alliance programs represent one alternative to failing AISD schools.
"...highest percentages of schools ranked "low-performing," based on high dropout rates and low student scores on the Texas Assessment..."
March 22, 2002 News Feature by Emily Pyle
The Hightower Lowdown
Resurrecting Cointelpro; The Cold Side of 'Workfare'
"...of his disabled wife and their kids, a 10th-grade dropout, relegated to poverty jobs, a hard worker...."
Dec. 28, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower
Chapter 1: Before the Beginning
The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.
"...write for it. Me, the outsider, a high school dropout who wasn't a student at UT. I said yes...."
Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature
What's Wrong with Public Housing?
The remarkable turnaround of the city's Housing Authority
"...other sites. Bartz is also working with AISD on dropout-prevention strategies for the too-many HACA kids who don't attend..."
Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Scary Movie
Sid Moody interviews director Larry Clark about his new film, Bully.
"...personality into his characterization of Marty, a high school dropout with sadistic as well as masochistic tendencies?..."
July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody
Choke: A Novel
"...inner low-life. In fact, Choke's "protagonist" is a medical-school dropout who chokes himself at restaurants for attention and cruises..."
June 15, 2001 Books Review by Andy Langer
Summer Reading
"...60s, Bob Rowe fathered a healthy daughter with the dropout nun 30 years his junior. Seems to me, he..."
June 1, 2001 Books Feature by Suzy Spencer
Sterling Lands' New Mission
Sterling Lands II and the Eastside Social Action Coalition fight for equity in Austin's public schools.
"...politics, he has been an active member of AISD's Dropout Task Force, and currently serves on the city's Planning..."
Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Opening the Doors
As college access tightens, minority students and families, and educators, look for ways to help more students.
"...are hiring every college-educated worker they can find, four-year dropout rates at some Eastside high schools are as high..."
Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Naked City
Sterling Lands' Eastside Action Coalition sends a letter to AISD, warning that eastside minority residents may take their children out of public schools if the schools don't improve their record on minority student achievement.
"...and described the continuing lower achievement rate and higher dropout rate of students of color as "an emergency of..."
Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Michael King
Food-o-File
You can tell it's October in Austin by the number of food and wine-related events packed into the coming week. Chronicle Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood informs readers of all of them.
"...to benefit Communities in Schools, an organization dedicated to dropout prevention. The gala event takes place at the Omni..."
Oct. 13, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood
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Mueller re-development is a rip-off and "affordable housing" is a sham.
"...AIDS" column about as credible as a high school dropout. When will the time come when you people stop..."
July 7, 2000 Column
From Here to Eternity
The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do
"...a new band with guitarist Keith Levene and art-school dropout Paul Simonon. Simonon had spent much of his time..."
May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw
No Purchase Necessary
Does Napster, the MP3-sharing software program that has spawned several lawsuits and been banned at universities across the nation, mean the end of music as we know it?
"...According to Shawn Fanning, the 19-year-old college dropout who programmed Napster, the software was designed to be..."
May 5, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
Naked City
AISDSuperintendent Pat Forgione fields protests about the recently-mandated end to block scheduling, and teachers' groups present alternatives.
"...they have been shown to reduce discipline problems and dropout rates. Austin High School, for example, which uses a..."
April 14, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Naked City
Scott Loras and Jill Warren head into an acrimonious runoff for the GOP nomination for Texas House District 48.
"...-- Maria Gavilan Burbridge, Robert Wyckoff, Joe Anderson, and dropout Albert Stowell -- teamed up against her in endorsing..."
April 7, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico
Jason Fellman
Slow and Steady Makes a Life
"...where trends shift weekly, Fellman, a UT music school dropout who's now a millionaire, is seeking perspective. He retreats..."
March 3, 2000 Screens Feature by Kevin Fullerton
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Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.
"...Just Lunch" dating service. As a working class college dropout I find these ads not only personally offensive but..."
Feb. 18, 2000 Column
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More tributes to Doug Sahm
"...intersection the other day, to all the local school dropout mariguanos in my barrio, for whom UT is off..."
Dec. 3, 1999 Column
Groover's Paradise
Former Rolling Stone scribe Ed Ward describes trying to track Doug Sahm.
"...the new kid at Rolling Stone, a 21-year-old college dropout ready to please, when editor/publisher Jann Wenner called me..."
Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Ed Ward
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Puzzled by Oppel
"...and growing public mistrust over "misreported" TAAS scores and dropout rate figures, AISD has the gall to propose another..."
Aug. 27, 1999 Column
Naked City
"...AISD which prompted her audit: TAAS score cheating, suspicious dropout reporting, low passing rates on the TAAS tests, an..."
Aug. 6, 1999 News Feature
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Still Pissed
"...quantify the problem. We have a crime rate, a dropout rate, an illiteracy rate, an unemployment rate, a poverty..."
July 9, 1999 Column
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June 18, 1999 News Feature
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June 4, 1999 News Feature
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May 28, 1999 News Feature
Extra Credit
Grading the Governor
"...agency uses today to record district TAAS scores and dropout rates, in 1991. Finally, TEA was up for a..."
May 28, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Hooked on Phonics
"...as the cure to education ills ranging from high dropout rates to low TAAS scores; Bush's Web site defines..."
