AISD Board of Trustees Approves $1.6 Billion Budget for 2019-2020

Lege gives AISD a one-year budget breather

"...In addition, the stipends for bilingual educators and special education teachers will be increased by $1,000 and $500, respectively,..."

June 21, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Hidden Figures

True story of NASA's black women mathematicians

"...how little things have changed in terms of STEM education for young girls and children of color since the..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...Adolph as "a humble man, with maybe a third-grade education, a carpenter." And, she adds, he was "a turd":..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Class Act

"...a great soundtrack featuring recent hip-hop/rap hits, and a pro-education/anti-drug/safe sex undercurrent for its targeted audience that is effective..."

June 12, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Brown Paper Packages

"...esteemed colleague, Mr. S. M., certainly has the online sex market -- ahem -- nailed, some of you may..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

March Primary Election Coverage Live Blog

Travis County awaits Super Tuesday election results

"...to Healthcare #2 Right to a 21st Century Public Education #3 Right to Clean Air, Safe Water, and a..."

March 3, 2020 News Post by News Staff

Point Austin: What Would Cole Porter Say?

Indiana's RFRA is an invitation to progressive response

"...(by no means all) are attempting similar claims against same-sex couples – that businesses have a right to discriminate..."

April 3, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

A flawed study suggests that abstinence-only curricula does not reduce teen sex

"...found that teenagers at two dozen high schools became sexually active at a higher rate after participating in abstinence-only..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Eighth Grade

Modern middle school life has never been captured better

"...hell Dante overlooked when deconstructing his Inferno, an unsentimental education that few of us remember fondly and most of..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Itemizing the Truth

"...facts. 1) I never advocated or even implied abstinence-only education. In fact, I didn't even bring up the topic...."

Sept. 9, 2016 Postmarks

The Real War on Women?

Live Action says 'gendercide' is growing in U.S.

"...It's the rise in the U.S. of so-called "gendercide," sex-selective abortion, a practice she says is "encouraged" by Planned..."

May 30, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Paula Kamen's New 'Strain' of Female

"...of a pervasive and candid analysis of current female sexuality, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution (Broadway..."

March 22, 2002 Books Feature by Laura Donnelly

From Southerners to Seventh Grade

"...the violence of the South, and (of course) male sexuality. Cocks are storied characters, no doubt, held in totemic..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Books Feature

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 5-11

"...CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "I am against sex education in schools because sex is more fun when..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Column by Rob Brezsny

Opinion: On Anniversary of Atlanta Spa Shootings, Asian Americans Still Erased in Texas

With the State Board of Education updating our history curriculum, we have an opportunity now to highlight Asian American narratives for future generations of Texas students

"...in Austin, I have been fetishized, exotified, objectified, and sexually assaulted ... and then often told it's a compliment...."

March 18, 2022 Column by Ashley Cheng

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...and Travis County law enforcement, alleging the mishandling of sexual assault cases. The plaintiffs – four sexual assault survivors..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Feature

Kissing Is Out, Glory Holes Are In for Students During Pandemic

Austin health professions talk safe sex practices

"...Experimentation, be it sexual, physical, or relational, is a significant component of many..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Nataleah Small

Quote of the Week

"..."A fifth-grade education may include transforming a polynomial, but never should it..."

Nov. 1, 2019 News Column

Headlines

"...you plan on discussing a bill that would affect sex education, you need not invite any educators to testify..."

March 8, 2013 News Feature

The AggreGAYtor: January 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Floral will-o-the-wisp Tory Burch is being sued by a bisexual African-American woman for systematic discrimination...."

Jan. 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Sick and Tired of Being Used as a Football

"...and political football. So, you want to provide zero sex education in schools, limit birth control, eliminate Planned Parenthood,..."

March 19, 2012 Postmarks

Top 10 Most-Viewed Stories on AustinChronicle.com

Notes on our virtual relationships

"...by Rick Perry?: The governor's political offenses outstrip his sexual ones"..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

Point Austin: What the GOP Wants for You

The 2010 Republican Party platform is a real nightmare

"...government proscriptions of one sort or another: criminalization of homosexuality, the banning of abortions (a "Human Life Amendment"), abolition..."

July 23, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Top 9 Quotes of the Week 2009

"...Say Don't Know" report quoting one of various abstinence-only sex-ed programs taught in Texas public schools (Feb. 27)..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature

Reproductive Rights

'Choose Life' – and Defund Women's Health Care

"...that would affect women's health care, reproductive rights, and sexuality education are up in the air. Sadly, measures that..."

May 8, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Methadonia

"By the time someone has gone from heroin to speedballs, methadone, and prescription drugs, the magic is over. The fantasy now is what other people might call a routine day."

"...links for addiction and treatment services. Also Out NowThe Education of Shelby Knox: Sex Lies & Education (InCite Pictures,..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Review by Sofia Resnick

Textbook Censorship Denies Reality

"...Editor, The recent decision by the State Board of Education to censor sex education in health texts for Texas..."

Nov. 11, 2004 Postmarks

The Motorcycle Diaries

Young Che Guevara takes a road trip up the length of South America and discovers his humanity in this portrait of the future revolutionary as a young man.

"...was a premed student with plans to further his education at a Venezuelan leper colony with the boisterous (and..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Year in Politics

The Top Ten Political Stories of 1997

"...lower the number of people on food stamps. Even sex education was affected by welfare reform, with the Feds..."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Feature

Postmarks

Apology Demanded

"...However, I can no longer tolerate the sexist nudie shots of female anatomy that are placed next..."

June 13, 1997 Column

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