AISD’s Transformative Schooling

Decoding Kendall Pace’s texts

"...could lead to between $250,000 and $1 million in funding awarded to each campus. The schools would also be..."

June 1, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Proposes a Budget

AISD sees its money go back to the state

"...AISD board President Kendall Pace had a very simple response..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD to Consider Charters and Communities Tonight

Agenda a complex dance between trustees, neighborhoods and employees

"...(now Eastside Memorial). This time, it ties in with AISD's seeming policy shift against adding single sex schools –..."

Dec. 17, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD: Tax Relief vs. Teacher Relief

AISD board hears testimony on historic property tax exemptions

"...still considering major cuts to spending as well as funding formulas that could strip potentially tens of millions of..."

April 29, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD: Long on Ideas ... Short on Funds

AISD looks for answers to budget dilemma

"...while also stripping funds from teacher-pay incentive programs that AISD pioneered and lawmakers championed. "They're going back on their..."

Jan. 28, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Will AISD Crack Down on Special Ed?

Advocates decry district's trend from 'disability' to 'discipline'

"...who can. The move worries special-ed advocates, who fear AISD will take advantage of the new flexibility to get..."

Nov. 26, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

AISD Bonds: More Sprawl and Surveillance?

The Austin ISD bond proposal includes plans for new construction and security measures that are raising some public questions

"...consider the package, which would fund capital improvements to AISD's $1.2 billion in facilities, this fall...."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Lawmakers Agree to Improve School Funding

Full-day pre-K, financial assistance, and more to support the state's public schools

"...to help educate the state's most vulnerable students, and funding for districts that want to implement merit pay programs..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

How Texas’ School Funding Scheme Contributed to Austin ISD’s Massive Budget Shortfall

Recapture is just one puzzle piece

"...Foster was lamenting the state’s role in AISD’s spiking budget deficit. The 2024-25 deficit shot from $60..."

May 24, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Still No Word on How Much TEA Will Influence AISD Special Ed

Local figures hope for a lower level of oversight than planned

"...provide adequate special education services to students; but in AISD's case the conservatorship would deal with only special education..."

June 9, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

What Will New AISD Budget Mean About Next Year's?

After struggles over staff pay, the budget is ready – and Carstarphen's ready to look to the future

"...from the controversial MGT of America efficiency study (see "AISD 'Efficiency' Study: Not Exactly What the Doctor Ordered?," June..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Citizens' Committee Shuffles AISD Bonds

A recap of the plans so far

"...jump-start every five years." Members were also concerned the funding could not include cash for information-technology support staff. "You..."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Blueprint and Blues for AISD

"...The other shoe has dropped on AISD's Austin Blueprint Monday, as Supt. Pat Forgione announced the..."

April 26, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

AISD Notebook

"...by Trustee Loretta Edelen, took up much of the AISD Board of Trustees meeting on Monday. Among other things,..."

Jan. 26, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

House to Address Education Funding

Speaker Joe Straus sets school finance as interim item

"...head, there would be no impetus to fix a funding process that even the justices admitted is substandard...."

June 10, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Bonds: Half Pass, Half Fail

Two propositions pass, but voters reject two more

"...The simple boil-down is that AISD has secured voter approval to repair its existing crumbling..."

May 12, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD: The First Carstarphen Budget

New AISD superintendent prepares her first whole budget

"...Adjustments to investigate rebalancing the state contribution to education funding. Formula funding currently covers the bulk of any losses..."

July 23, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Seeks Dream Leader Amid Budget Nightmare

New superintendent likely to take reins of a district in fiscal crisis

"...what they'll be running toward may be the biggest AISD budget hole in living memory. As Chief of Business..."

June 12, 2020 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: AISD: How Low Can We Go?

Let's hope we don't have to find out

"..."Statement from the Board President on behalf of the AISD Board of Trustees" the district sent out the next..."

May 1, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

AISD Trustees Consider $30 Million in Cuts

Treading carefully on the budget

"...But it's not all doom and gloom – AISD looks to offset that belt-tightening with $13 million in..."

April 26, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Board Preps for Lege

This year's motto: give the district more money

"...ways to fund schools beyond property taxes, a simplified funding formula, and a system that provides "adequate and equitable"..."

June 15, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD: How Much Single-Sex Is Enough?

AISD hires a principal for a new boys' middle school as plans for a boys' academy appear to be on hold

"...school – one for boys, one for girls (see "AISD: The Resegregationists," Jan. 29.) The two campuses are scheduled..."

May 31, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Teacher Raises Unlikely

No added bonuses with bonuses this year

"...a pay raise still seems unlikely. Last month, the AISD board of trustees balked at a tax election that..."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Takes a Peek at Its Budget

It looks like the reserves will be taking a hit

"...in progress, on June 15 the staff presented the AISD board of trustees with the broad themes for the..."

June 19, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Teachers Union to AISD Board President: Resign

Pace vacates presidency, won't resign from board

"...bring to fruition. At a press conference held outside AISD headquarters on Tuesday, EA President Ken Zarifis said: "Instead..."

May 18, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Austin Kids First Throws Money into AISD Races

New pro-reform PAC drops $30,000 behind candidates

"...So who is funding the new group? According to their filings with the..."

Oct. 31, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD's Next Step After Exigency?

If exigency doesn't mean cuts, what does it mean?

"...Schneider noted that there is a chance that state funding could be revived. "Bottom line," he told the board,..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Budget: Holding the Line

Funding the new school year

"...stimulus money, the state would prefer they find other funding mechanisms. "Every time we turn around, there's something else,"..."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Gets New Trustee, PAC, Working Bathrooms

Voters approve all three school bonds

"...Plus, as AISD board of trustee's president Mark Williams pointed out, this..."

May 11, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Aisd Figures

"...Proposed AISD budget for 1997-98: $457.5 million Preliminary tax rate: $1.40..."

June 20, 1997 News Feature

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