Naked City

Charter Schools Flunk Out

"...Alanis, ordered that five of the state's "low-performing" charter schools, serving about 2,000 students in all, be closed at..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Looking for Leadership

It takes a community to support the schools.

"...duck Mallard Fillmore. Reconsidering the persistent problems of Austin schools, particularly the AISD's failure to improve quickly enough the..."

April 19, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Zeroing in on No Tolerance

Texas Schools Target Drugs and Violence

"...tolerance" policy on drugs, weapons, violence, and profanity in schools. Also present was Jerry Pyle, a teacher and member..."

May 12, 1995 News Feature by Andrea Barnett

Anger at Pease Elementary as AISD Revokes Transfers

Transfer requests were for schools that had already reached maximum enrollment capacity

"...of trustees voted in November to close four elementary schools, district staff began working with the Pease school community..."

March 6, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD's Carstarphen Atlanta Bound

Superintendent named sole finalist to head Atlanta Public Schools

"...quit her job as superintendent of St. Paul Public Schools to head up the Austin Independent School District. She..."

April 4, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD, Single Sex, And the Shadow of Separate But Equal

Trustee Bradley on why she believes East Austin needs a boys' school

"...good intention. But when she proposes two single sex schools, and explains her thinking, you have to ask: Is..."

Aug. 9, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

From Second Street to Carruth

AISD and city relations improving with concrete results

"...for not doing enough to protect Austin ISD's neighborhood schools. In fact, his tenure has lead to, if not..."

Feb. 9, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

AISD: Who is Under the Axe?

Breaking down the 1,017 proposed cuts

"...pick apart the presentation, and it's clearer now which schools, offices, and individual jobs are under the lay-off axe...."

Feb. 13, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Saving the Alliance Schools

"...The Alliance Schools, a program that improves school performance through direct community..."

March 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

Judge Blocks Texas Education Agency From Releasing New, Harsher Grades

A-F accountability grade: incomplete

"...releasing its new, harsher A-F grades of the state’s schools any time soon...."

Oct. 27, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Austin at Large: Equity Is Everybody’s Business

We the people of Austin own the future of our schools

"...in 2011-12, the last time AISD tried to close schools, with a different superintendent and largely different board of..."

Dec. 27, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Bill of the Week

Bill by Rep. Eddie Rodriguez would support community schools

"...vouchers are the only way to save struggling public schools. But what if there were a way to give..."

March 6, 2015 News Column by Richard Whittaker

Breaking the Cycle

Schools move to end teen dating violence

"...state to adopt and implement a dating violence policy. Schools must be able to define the different types of..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

AISD Going Out on a Limb

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

"...And here are your separate buses to your separate schools...."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Hecht v. Dietz

Supremes find high taxes onerous, but lousy schools OK

"...and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools."..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Lanier High Wins Federal Grant

Full Service Community Schools grant will provide social services and continuing education

"...The Full Service Community Schools grant – $500,000 a year for five years –..."

Sept. 25, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Of Facilities and Communities

AISD facility master plan task force makes last draft changes

"...AISD Facility Master Plan is a done deal. No schools named for closure, a shortened repair list, and a..."

March 8, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Just Watch the Livestock

Texas schools' sex ed favors 'don't ask, don't tell ... and keep 'em ignorant'

"..."Just Say Don't Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools," by David Wiley, a professor of health education, and..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A New Separate but Equal?

Are private schools really being oppressed by not being allowed in the UIL?

"...would open up the University Interscholastic League to private schools around the state - private schools that have their..."

April 24, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Planting a Seed

Local schools see students not only eating all of their vegetables but growing them, too

"...early age is enrolling them in local alternative education schools, such as Ronda's Montessori Garden (rondasgarden@yahoo.com). Ronda Dizney deals..."

March 23, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Overenrolled and Underenrolled

AISD's Elementary Schools

"...Demographic shifts have left a large percentage of center-city schools underenrolled, while schools on the edge of town overflow..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature

AISD Notebook

Schools on the Aquifer?

"...in a session on proposed relief areas (read: new schools) in the southern portion of the school district. Of..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Inside the Facebook Wars Dividing Thousands of AISD Parents

Who comes first in Austin schools?

"...been a venue for Austin's civic dialogue about its schools for years. Before now, those conversations were only part..."

Dec. 11, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

AISD Trustees Push Back on Campus Closure Plan

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

"...aggressive facilities plan from district leaders that would identify schools for potential consolidation or closure by June. At the..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Lege Lines: Billpocalypse!

Bills start dying as sine die draws near; schools get new A-F grading system; and more

"...fields, it was a mixed result. Advocates for community schools were jubilant when HB 1891 by Reps. Eddie Rodriguez,..."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Here Comes the Boom

Kevin James plays a biology teacher who moonlights as a mixed martial-arts fighter; Salma Hayek is his love interest.

"...this movie and donating the film’s budget to actual schools in need (of which there are thousands, by the..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Design a Poster, Save A Life

Local ISDs and Cap Metro launch rail safety competition for kids near new tracks

"...The competition is open to grades K-12 at schools within half a mile of the new rail tracks..."

Jan. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Tremble in fear ... TAKS is here

"...and Skills tests began in all of Texas' public schools this week. The tests measure both students' abilities and..."

Feb. 25, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Capitol Chronicle

Everyone in Texas wants better schools, but no one wants to pay the tab.

"...historical problem of social inequity, which by default the schools are charged with fixing. Better to blame the state's..."

April 12, 2002 News Column by Michael King

24-Texas Teachers Talk of “Trauma” at TribFest

Educators discuss the challenges of reopening schools, TEA head defends decision to administer STAAR tests

"...superintendents, and the teachers, voiced concerns about reopening Texas schools...."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

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