School for Scripts

Why Get an MFA in Playwriting? Here's Why

"...Enter the MFA program. Graduate school is able to produce a playwright's work, satisfying that..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Austin ISD Mandates Masks for Back to School

Austin joins Texas districts in defying Abbott's COVID-19 orders

"...Late Monday night, the Austin Independent School District joined Houston, Dallas, and other school districts across..."

Aug. 13, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Late Meeting Leads to Big School Investment

Everyone should vote on $4.6 billion investments close to 3am, correct?

"...The Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees endured a nine-hour meeting Monday..."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

News Roundup: TCAD Denies Rent Too Damn High

And where are all the voters?

"...Texas) "would expose every property owner in Texas to higher property taxes." Paxton thereby inadvertently acknowledged that current appraisals..."

Nov. 2, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Eastside High Needs You

Austin ISD holding enrollment fair for Eastide High campus today.

"...Eastside High is looking for 600 good students. As part of..."

July 19, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

High Tech Schools: The Future, or the Latest Fad?

Will new technology funding go to build skills or just buy stuff?

"...The University of Texas Elementary School in East Austin is what those in the field..."

Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Walking the High Finance Wire

Bergstrom Costs Going Up and Up

"...Austin American-Statesman on April 18, of a generation of schoolchildren at Del Valle who may grow up hard of..."

May 12, 1995 News Feature by Dave Cook

The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of High Noon

Glenn Frankel’s new book on the classic film explores a very timely history

"...The author of High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an..."

March 3, 2017 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Lege Goes to School: Education Bills

"...Taxes, finance, vouchers, graduation paths, "parent triggers," and community schools: Lawmakers have filed a broad slate of education bills,..."

May 1, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Biased Journalism On Ann Richards School

"...of AISD who taught PE at the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders ["In the Name of Ann..."

Sept. 3, 2013 Postmarks

High Tech vs. High Touch

The midwifery debate is not new in Austin -- a Chronicle reprint from June 18, 1993

"...acquitted) for attending a home birth that doctors considered high risk. Nationwide, hundreds of other non-nurse midwives operate illegally...."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Sculpting a School

David Deming on the Art of Being a Dean

"...helm of the college at a time when it's highly ranked among similar schools in the country, yet when..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Public Notice: School Boards and Rail Lines

Searching for a super, roughing out the rail routes

"...The Austin Independent School Dis­trict Board of Trustees will be selecting a new..."

March 17, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Lawmakers Agree to Improve School Funding

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

"...the state's K-12 system, providing pay raises to most school employees, additional resources to help educate the state's most..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Med School Campaign Goes High-Speed

The campaign for a UT-Austin medical school accelerates

"...consequences and benefits implicit in the proposed UT-Austin med school and teaching hospital championed by state Sen. Kirk Watson,..."

Oct. 12, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Time for a New Mueller Public School

"...Editor, As the Mueller Airport redevelopment project is a high-profile, urban, public/private collaboration that has served as a national..."

Jan. 20, 2008 Postmarks

ACC’s Music Trade School Gets a World-Class Facility

The Music Business Performance Technology department spreads its wings at ACC Highland

"...At Studio A, inside Austin Community College's Highland campus, a sky-high ceiling gives an unencumbered air to..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Features Feature by Kevin Curtin

Lunchtime at Asian American Cultural Center's Magic Dragon School

"...My recollection of eau de preschool definitely doesn't include the heavenly scent of freshly made..."

March 23, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack

Austin School of Music

"...At the Austin School of Music, located in the same building as Strait..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Spangles and High Heels

Dreams come true, just ask "Her Tallness," Marcia Ball.

"...didn't want the cowboy shirts; I wanted spangles and high heels." Growing Up Cajun The cowboy mystique hung on..."

June 20, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

We Have an Issue: It’s the Back to School Issue

Welcome to college, y'all. Here's what you need to know about drugs.

"...– the lead feature in this year's Back to School issue – is not about drugs. Not really. It's..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

The Common Law: High Property Taxes? File a Written Protest

Protest High Property Taxes

"...year, Travis County says my house has an incredibly high appraised value – which means really high property taxes...."

May 4, 2012 Column by Luke Ellis

Fed School Funding

Teachers' unions say Race to the Top places too much emphasis on testing

"...While legislatures and school districts in other states rush to comply with the..."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

High Voltage Fashion Show 2010

UT Design seniors show their talent

"...the University of Texas' talented student designers of the School of Human Ecology's Division of Textiles and Apparel, as..."

April 28, 2010 Design Post by Michelle Washington

Where the Pyramid Meets the High

Long lost 13th Floor Elevators founder and visionary Tommy Hall – found!

"...didn't want to take our son Roland out of school. She was a great mother and did not want..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Trybyszewski

AISD’s High-Profile CFO Takes Her Leave

Nicole Conley passed over in search for new schools chief

"...(the pair had previously worked together in Washington, D.C., schools); to some degree of surprise, Conley stuck around when..."

Aug. 7, 2020 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Hall Hustle: Hell or High Water

WTP4 opposition increasing – and increasingly not on the same page

"...is slated to start Aug. 23 –a day before school starts at nearby Canyon Vista Middle School, which we'll..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

In Austin, Safety Comes at a (Too) High Price

The city's inflated budgets may have left Austin ped / bike projects empty-handed.

"...projects that have won funding for Safe Routes to Schools -- a state/federal program created to improve pedestrian and..."

March 21, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Early Data Shows Progress at Four High-Crash Intersections

Number of accidents dramatically drops at intersections outfitted with new safety controls

"...million to address a list of about a dozen high-crash intersections. And there's some early good news, according to..."

Dec. 29, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Hot Summer, High Stakes

A pot dealer comes of age in Dance With the One

"...who teaches filmmaking and acting at St. Stephen's Episcopal School, credits the screenwriters, Jon Marc Smith (an Austin native)..."

July 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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