AISD Attendance Zones

"...When Porter ceases to be a neighborhood school, its attendance zone will be divided between three other schools, each..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature

With Changes Coming, AISD Revisits Facilities Plan

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

"...lead to the closure of schools, the redrawing of attendance zones, and the redistribution of some academic programs. Those..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Struggling With Capacity

Redrawing all school boundaries inevitable, but not imminent

"...next few years: A complete redrawing of every school's attendance zone...."

Dec. 20, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD's "School Changes" Process Places Equity Front and Center

“Historically, this is a very racist city, and unfortunately, this school district is a part of that system"

"...feeder patterns – the arrangements of campuses, programs, and attendance zones that determine the paths that Austin students follow..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Back to the Drawing Board

Process for Mapping School Boundary Lines Improved, Still Difficult

"...AISD's hired demographer Dennis Harner spends his days developing attendance zone plans for the district, only to have a..."

April 3, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

AISD: Matching Buildings to Kids, or Vice Versa?

AISD aims to resolve under- and overcrowding issues with its facilities master plan

"...and infrastructure investments to more radical shakeups, like redrawing attendance zones or repurposing, consolidating, or even closing schools. Because..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Communication Breakdown

Rocked by financial crisis, AISD goes to war with itself – and everyone suffers

"...the board will have to look at redrawing school attendance zones to make better use of existing campuses. AISD..."

April 15, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Prepares to Slice the Apple

School district battles its budget monsters

"...State funding for public schools is closely tied to attendance; AISD expects a reduction of $11.6 million in state..."

Dec. 7, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Morrison and Tovo Retarget STRs

Council's on break, but these two are hard at work

"...have on neighborhood school enrollment. She believes using school attendance zones (rather than ZIP codes) as boundaries for STR..."

July 13, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AISD Board Debates Path for Future School Closures

AISD Board gets closer to "school change"

"...crafts scenarios for school closures, repurposed facilities, and redrawn attendance zones. At times, the conversations echoed the recent wrangling..."

May 10, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Board: Place Six

Three run to replace Moya

"...middle schools" that cannot simply be solved by redrawing attendance zones. Since leaving the district, she has been working..."

Aug. 29, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bonds: 'Death By a Thousand Cuts'

Even with Propositions 1 and 3 passing, AISD's election campaign appeared doomed from the start

"...district has been putting off for years – redrawing attendance zones. Carstarphen argued that these latest results mean that..."

May 17, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Farewell to Allan

Eastside parents watch AISD and IDEA dismantle their neighborhood school

"...qualified educator.'" Even though she lives in the Brentwood attendance zone, she decided to transfer her daughter to Allan..."

June 1, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Saving Austin's Schools

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

"...students, but only claimed 301 elementary-age kids in its attendance zone in 2015 – and only 261 enrolled at..."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

IDEA's Records Show Kids From Across District

Charter school says its fulfilling mission to serve the underserved

"...61 of the 570 students live in the Allan attendance zone. Moreover, IDEA Allan is supposed to serve the..."

Oct. 5, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Headlines

"...last week and will manage patrol for five command zones, including highway enforcement and the airport...."

March 25, 2016 News Feature

How a Small Town Has Fared as a Microchip Factory Brings in Billions

Has Taylor, TX, become Boomtown, TX?

"...to live," he said. "However, as we think about attendance zones and future school sites, we just have to..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

A New Plan for Austin ISD?

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

"...Place 8 contender Mike Herschenfeld) that grappled with redrawing attendance zones. Then, once the School Changes process produced a..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Public Notice: Turtles, Two-Steps, and Active "Shooters"

"...closures, but rather how many and where, and how attendance boundaries can be remapped to achieve the best outcomes..."

May 24, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Next Round of School Reform

AISD focuses again on Eastside schools

"...are popular and increasingly successful, but suffer from low attendance; and Eastside Memorial High School has been through the..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD: Board Approves Sex Segregation

AISD board approves three single-sex schools on Eastside

"...abyss – comes with the decision to combine the attendance zones for Pearce and Garcia middle schools, then split..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Res Publica

There are all kinds of ways to be a good citizen this week, Dec. 4-10

"...CAMPUS BOUNDARY MEETING Public input is welcome on the attendance zones for the new Southwest middle school, slated to..."

Dec. 5, 2008 News Feature

Closing Schools, Shrinking Enrollment Make for Tense Times at AISD

Sour apples at AISD

"...recommendation for closing schools, the BSTF report suggests redrawing attendance zones as one way of shoring up enrollment at..."

Jan. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin At Large: Fractured Fairy Tales

Will no Prince Charming come to save our school district in distress?

"...closing schools, cutting popular stuff like magnet programs, redrawing attendance zones, and other things that have in the recent..."

Jan. 11, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

On the Trustee Trail

AISD, ACC candidates talk money, equity

"...for teachers in Title I schools, the redrawing of attendance zones to further integrate campuses, and an equity office..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD: Get With the Times

Modernizing the district in more ways than one

"...Paul Cruz committed to exploring a change to the attendance zones surrounding Sanchez, so more students from the surrounding..."

Sept. 28, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Splitting the Baby

AISD votes to buy two plots of land

"...political backyard, he'd prefer the district finally realign school attendance zones, and examine reforms to existing transfer policies. He..."

Dec. 18, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Timeline of Key Changes

A decade of changes in Eastside schools

"...2014 Pearce and Garcia are scheduled to merge attendance zones for the new school year, when each campus..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Going Out on a Limb

Single-sex schools aren't all they're cracked up to be

"...schools. Pearce and Garcia Middle Schools will merge their attendance zones, and then split their student bodies along chromosome..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Eastside Memorial Community: Accentuate the Positive

Supporters hope Education Commissioner sees gains

"...Austin, 107 kids have transferred to Eastside from other attendance zones. Weeks said "I think if Eastside started pulling..."

June 5, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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