Becky Fogel
Education Reporter for at KUT-FM (Austin, TX)
Education reporter for @KUT. Previously editor/producer of newscasts for the Texas Newsroom. Alum of @SciFri @KWBU. I'm a tall 5'3" [email protected]
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1 day ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
The Austin ISD Board of Trustees on Thursday OK'd a 2025-26 budget that has a projected deficit of $19.7 million. The new fiscal year begins July 1. Austin ISD interim Chief Financial Officer Katrina Montgomery told trustees that while they were asked to approve a deficit budget, the district will continue working on ways to reduce it.
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2 days ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
The Austin ISD school board votes Thursday on a proposal to improve three middle schools that have received consecutive failing grades from the state. The district must submit turnaround plans for Burnet, Dobie and Webb middle schools to the Texas Education Agency by Monday. The board’s decision is the culmination of a whirlwind few months that has left families, students and educators reeling as Austin ISD prepares to overhaul schools to avoid state sanctions.
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5 days ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
Anti-hunger advocates in Texas thought they had scored a win this year when state lawmakers included $60 million in the budget to launch a program to reduce food insecurity for children. But on Sunday, Gov. Greg Abbott line-item vetoed the funding out of the state's $338 billion budget. The Republican leader cited concerns about federal funding for the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer program.
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5 days ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
The Austin Community College District Board of Trustees said it will join a lawsuit challenging the end of a Texas law that allowed certain undocumented students to get in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities. The 2001 law is known as the Texas Dream Act. “As the publicly elected arm of the College, the Trustees are asking for the opportunity to engage in a legal conversation that will examine whether the Texas Dream Act is constitutional,” trustees said in a news release.
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1 week ago |
kut.org | Becky Fogel
This story will be updated. Austin ISD students in third through eighth grade exceeded their pre-pandemic scores for reading across the board, results from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test, show. The scores, released Tuesday, show nearly all grades saw at least a small increase in the percentage of students meeting grade level. The only exception was seventh graders, who saw no change year over year, with 53% of students meeting grade level in 2024 and 2025.
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Tonight, the @AustinISD school board is hearing lots of public comments criticizing turnaround plans for three middle schools that have received failing grades from the state. Trustees are supposed to vote on the plans for Burnet, Dobie and Webb at the next board meeting on 6/26. https://t.co/GnWlDIcAp6
RT @HeathKeri: A group of parents and teachers gathered at the headquarters for @teainfo this afternoon to ask for more time for @AustinISD…