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2 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Brant Bingamon
Education Austin’s leader Ken Zarifis speaks in 2023 Ken Zarifis remembers when Education Austin, the union representing Austin’s public school teachers and staff, first began to push Austin ISD’s board of trustees. It was 2011 and AISD was considering whether to allow a charter school to take over Allan Elementary on the city’s Eastside.
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3 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Brant Bingamon
Funding is going up, but it won’t get us to the 2019 level considering inflation Texas legislators passed over 90 bills related to local schools in this year’s 89th legislative session, education wonks estimate. Chandra Villanueva of policy experts Every Texan said several of them, including Senate bills 10, 11, and 13, could be described as Christian Nationalist bills.
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1 month 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 month 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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1 month 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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