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Broad-based group's plan for increasing student, community involvement

"..."community conversations" to develop grassroots ideas for improving Austin schools. The conversations included teachers, students, parents, and community members,..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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Six candidates are vying for three uncompensated positions on the AISD school board.

"...parents anxious about the future of high-level academics and magnet schools. A dogged optimist, Edwards says she's keeping her..."

April 7, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

TV Eye

Two new specials focus on the Internet -- one on its remarkable past, one on its potentially hazardous future; also, Showtime launches the Latino Filmmaker Showcase.

"..."Computer Classes," examines the use of computers in the schools. While many "model" or "magnet" schools have the latest..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Public Notice: Get Your Meeting On

A roundup of civic events to start the year off right

"...other AISD news, the district has announced that 29 schools will be frozen to transfers for the 2015-16 school..."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

ARS Works For My Daughter

"...through the same rigorous process to apply to the magnet schools just like all the other kids. She worked..."

Sept. 12, 2013 Postmarks

Old Times There Are Not Forgotten

"...and the lockers were gone. The talk was of magnet schools and various programs no one imagined in 1970...."

April 14, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Will AISD Magnetize Eastside Sixth-Graders?

Kealing Junior High may add a sixth grade -- at the expense of its three Eastside elementary feeder schools.

"...Austin ISD has 16 middle schools (grades six to eight), but Kealing is the only..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

Saving the Ten Percenters

AISD merges Liberal Arts and Science and Math Academies

"...welcomed the change, they said, because the new combined magnet program will offer a broad-based curriculum and will free..."

Nov. 30, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Kealing: Equal but Separate Plans

Parents of magnet and comprehensive program students have differing visions for Eastside middle school

"...Superintendent Pat Forgione's since-shelved proposal to formally divide Kealing's magnet program into a separate school with its own administration..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

A Kealing Compromise

District won't formally separate Kealing Middle School's magnet program from neighborhood school

"...that the district will not formally split Kealing's advanced-academic magnet program from the neighborhood school. Forgione told the school..."

March 16, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

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Our readers talk back.

"...committee on Catholic identity. I have been in Catholic schools (including Boston College) for 27 years. I don't claim..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Column

Putting Himself 'Out Here'

Theatre Arts and English teacher Rick Garcia has put himself "out here," on Austin's fringes, n the off-the-map, lost-worldness of Johnston High School, to reach out to some of the poorest kids in one of Austin's most neglected neighborhoods and make a difference through that rare and vital cocktail: art and education.

"...and whitest, high schoolers, who attend Johnston's Liberal Arts Magnet program. Garcia's unique theatre program attracts students from both..."

March 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Point Austin: Compared to What?

Crisis at Kealing the latest chapter in a too-long story

"...divisions between underperforming neighborhood school and nationally renowned academic magnet, privileged commuter students and disadvantaged neighborhood students, the mostly..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Column by Michael King

No Room at the Inn

Parents and educators discuss adding a sixth grade to the Kealing magnet.

"...The Johnston/LBJ situation isn't the only controversy surrounding AISD magnet programs. In its report on magnet programs to the..."

Dec. 7, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Enrollment Stalling, IDEA Gets Magnetic

IDEA begins recruiting districtwide, magnet-style

"...District first proposed handing campuses over to IDEA Public Schools, it was sold to parents and trustees as a..."

April 13, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...system, once merely onerous, now carries serious consequences for schools that don't meet minimum expectations. This year Johnston –..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

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Defending the death penalty, the new Gov, the schools, and all that Jazz.

"...City Schools Need Cooperation..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Column

'May the Passenger Pigeon Sing Thee to Thy Rest'

Second-Place Winner

"...She withdrew my brother and me from the reservation schools and had us bused to the white schools in..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Books Feature by Perry Tyson Midkiff II

Aisd

"...solutions to the commingling of the class rankings of magnet and non-magnet program students at LBJ and Johnston High..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature

Designed To Fail

As Pearce may face another repurposing, AISD gets excited about single-sex schools

"...reference to potentially turning both Pearce and Garcia middle schools into separate boys' and girls' schools (see "'Are We..."

Nov. 18, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Casts a Wider Blueprint

The Austin ISD announced its expansion of the Blueprint Initiative to LBJ and Reagan high schools

"...Blueprint Initiative was expanded to include two Eastside high schools: Reagan and LBJ. Two middle schools, Dobie and Pearce,..."

April 9, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

AISD: We Know What Boys Are Like

Proposal would turn Pearce and Garcia middle schools into single-sex academies

"...so. She proposes turning two of the four middle schools in her district into "single-sex" schools...."

Aug. 10, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...at LBJ High School into a separate school. The magnet will remain at LBJ High but will now have..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature

AISD Goes Global

Johnston High School welcomes immigrant students and makes waves in the neighborhood

"...build, rather than undermine, the community support its high schools so badly need.Leis and Crazy Eights Johnston High is..."

Nov. 26, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Money Makes AISD's World Go Round

Policy questions at Austin ISD are increasingly being answered by the district's fiscal crunch.

"...next couple of years. It's no secret that Texas schools, like the rest of the public sector, are strapped..."

Jan. 24, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

AISD Notebook

"..."full restoration of funding for the lowest socioeconomic level schools" and for the contracts of principals and teachers at..."

Jan. 26, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

A Science Experiment

AISD's Young Women's Leadership Academy aims to point more girls toward science

"...emphasize science, which is of course gender-neutral, but the schools will girl-ify in other ways, such as tailoring PE..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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News Shorts

"...Brown Act promoting safe bike and pedestrian routes to schools. Both bills were debated during this year's 77th Texas..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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Don't Ask, Don't Know at Fulmore

"...our campuses." Parents were allowed to come to the schools and sign out their children for the day, and..."

Sept. 21, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

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Run, Max, Run

"...Underfunded Schools Dear Editor:..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Column

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