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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Brant Bingamon
The Legislature has promised improved school funding, but AISD isn’t counting on it The school closure crisis is entangled with the release of Texas’ A-F accountability ratings, which came out in April with 30 local schools scoring F’s. However, Austin ISD officials say, the closures really remain about two things: The district’s budget deficit and the declining enrollment in its public schools.
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1 week ago |
austinchronicle.com | Brant Bingamon
AISD says all schools at risk, but parents worry for poor areas AISD is asking student families and district staff to weigh in about closures through an online survey open until June 6 Austin ISD officials aren’t ready to say which of the district’s 116 schools will be closed and consolidated to save money as they navigate their ongoing budget deficit. “We’re looking at all schools,“ AISD’s director of planning, Raechel French, told KUT News last week.
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2 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Brant Bingamon
Senate Bill 37 shifts power from university administrators and faculties to boards appointed by the governor Texas Republicans are working to tighten their grip on the state’s public universities.
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2 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Brant Bingamon
Behind efforts to eliminate the state test that stresses kids out and shuts schools down Lots of people hate the STAAR test – students (of course), teachers (of course), but also parents and principals. Austin state representative Gina Hinojosa has a story she tells to demonstrate her feelings about STAAR. “My son, when he was in second grade at Becker Elementary, was doing a STAAR practice test in preparation for third grade,” Hinojosa told us.
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3 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Brant Bingamon
Attorneys argue support for death penalty has waned since trial There is only so much that defense attorneys can do in cases like that of Matthew Johnson. Johnson is scheduled to be executed on May 20 for the murder of Nancy Harris in Garland in 2012. His guilt has never been in doubt.
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