Why AISD Wants and Needs a $2.4 Billion Bond Program

Equity is not cheap

"...time Austin ISD asked voters to approve a big bond package – a $1.05 billion package, the largest ever..."

Oct. 7, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Billion-Dollar AISD Bond Goes to Vote in November

Billion-dollar bond will go to vote in November

"...Monday to ask voters to approve a $1.05 billion bond package in the November general election...."

June 30, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mx. Justin Vivian Bond Comes to Austin

The queer cabaret legend is the friend we all need right now

"...On September 8, cabaret extraordinaire Mx. Justin Vivian Bond will grace the capital city with their show Rebecca..."

Sept. 7, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

SXSW Film Review: Becoming Bond

The secret life of the forgotten James Bond

"...Lazenby had no business replacing Sean Connery as James Bond, but he did and quickly hit the career self-destruct..."

March 12, 2017 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

Texas Book Festival 2017: The Full List

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

"...the full menu of authors on tap for the 2017 event, and it's massive: 295 names, among them such..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget

Competing ideas on how to spend $969 million

"...Council remains knee-deep in deliberations over the fiscal year 2017 city budget. In its largest incarnation, that's the $3.7..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council Reaches Consensus on Mobility Bond

Adler's "Go Big" Baby

"...public hearings (Items 87-93) on the proposed Fiscal Year 2017 budget, all set for a "time-certain" (no earlier than)..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Implementing the Mobility Bond and Corridor Construction Program, if You Can Wait for It

Going to take a long, long time

"...study by transportation analysis firm INRIX, Austin drivers in 2017 spent less time in traffic than their counterparts in..."

June 8, 2018 News Feature by Jack Craver

First of Final Four Bond Election Task Force Listening Sessions Tonight

Members working with $640 million framework

"...The Bond Election Advisory Task Force is holding an additional four..."

Jan. 9, 2018 News Post by Sarah Marloff

City Council Preview: Juggling Act to Include Budget, Transportation Bond

Council agenda occupied by a handful of pressing subjects

"...2, right after Approval of Minutes) is Council's FY 2017 budget "concept menu." The "menu," initiated by Mayor Steve..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

ACC Reopens Historic Campus Ahead of Bond Election

ACC shows what it can do with less than $50 million

"...will decide the fate of a new $770 million bond measure to fund projects at a number of ACC's..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Abe Asher

AISD’s Billion Dollar Bond

Plans include investments in 41 items, including five new schools

"...mulled over a proposal to place a $1.5 billion bond proposition on the November ballot – by far the..."

June 9, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin FC, Philadelphia Union Share an Unlikely Bond

The fans were there, even before MLS was

"...when MLS first began its courtship of Austin in 2017, the project Babetski and Co. had kept on life..."

March 15, 2024 Sports Post by Eric Goodman

“It’s Like a Family Business, Except Rock Stars”: The Kindred Bond of We Don’t Ride Llamas

Afro rock sibling band is defiantly unconventional on new EP The Oracle

"...were born) to Austin and then back again in 2017, the Mitchell household's esteem for chaotic eclecticism has –..."

April 29, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Austin Free Week 2017

"...Bond Twins at Hotel Vegas..."

Jan. 10, 2017 Photo Gallery

AISD Board Considers Futures for Underused Facilities

The district’s property portfolio has become an increasingly pressing matter

"...out on Nov. 30 to the district's Facilities and Bond Plan­­ning Advis­ory Committee (FABPAC) by consultants from Brailsford &..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A New Plan for Austin ISD?

School board elections tee up calls for change – and rebuilding broken trust

"...and the fallout from those – a $1.1 billion bond program approved in 2017, and then the wildly unpopular..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Bondology

How does one schedule a bond? Very carefully, and with a lot of advance planning.

"...In Texas, when it comes to local government, no bonds will mean no infrastructure...."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Waitin' for the Money

Budget, bond drama overshadows all else

"...the annual city budget (see "City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget,"), after apparently having achieved surprising unanimity last week..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

AISD Starts the Clock on School Closures

Board set to decide in June on campus consolidations

"...consolidating or closing campuses. The criteria created for the 2017 Facilities Master Plan could inform that process; in that..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

AISD: Propositions for a Full Board

Trustees mull bond package after Geronimo Rodriguez tabbed to succeed Paul Saldaña in District 6

"...on the shape, size, and scope of a big-time bond proposal...."

June 16, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Election Results: Meat and Potatoes

Travis County, Austin ISD come up big on bond projects

"...on Tuesday night with overwhelming support for public investment bonds...."

Nov. 10, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Ted Gordon Believes

Is it too late to fix the AISD bond package?

"...drop a much-anticipated Mueller middle school from the proposed bond project list under consideration for a November vote (see..."

June 23, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council: Burning Daylight

Passing the hot bond potato

"...several hours discussing the possibility of a November transportation bond package, with the understanding that they need to make..."

June 10, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

With Changes Coming, AISD Revisits Facilities Plan

Trustees to consider school closures, redrawing of attendance zones, and more

"...This is the first revisiting of the FMP since 2017's $1.05 billion school bond program was approved by voters,..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Booksmart

The kids are better than alright in Olivia Wilde's raucous, resonant comedy

"...– lacks belly laughs.) Primarily Booksmart is about the bond between two best friends, and how that bond can..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Record Number of Votes Were Cast in AISD Board Races. The Run-Offs Will Be a Different Story.

Lower voter turnout may intensify already close races

"...of the committee responsible for planning AISD's $1 billion bond in 2017. Neither earned more than 40% of the..."

Nov. 13, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

The Next Austin Bust

Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?

"...(Adler and Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt partnered in 2017 to promote a "Middle Skills Initiative" to increase job..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

AISD Trustees Push Back on Campus Closure Plan

“When we start messing with people’s schools, we start messing with their communities”

"...authorizing district staff to collaborate with the Facilities and Bond Planning Advisory Committee (FABPAC) to analyze data and draw..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Saving Austin's Schools

Nobody gets everything they want, but AISD’s bond may give everybody something they really need

"...Austin ISD's bond package has something for every campus, as well as..."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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