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Last week, the Austin Independent School District announced that 12 schools could be closed. Now the school district is soliciting feedback from Austinites in a series of public meetings. Residents are invited to discuss plans at campus-specific meetings, district-wide meetings, or by participating online via this portal. Public meetings will take place through Oct. 10. All meetings are listed below, with the meetings’ focus in parentheses:

  • Pease Elementary School, Sept. 23, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Pease Elementary)
  • Metz Elementary School, Sept. 24, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Metz Elementary)
  • Sims Elementary School, Sept. 25, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Norman-Sims Elementary)
  • Webb Middle School, Sept. 25, 5:30-7:00 p.m. (Webb Middle School)
  • Brooke Elementary School, Sept. 26, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Brooke Elementary)
  • Maplewood Elementary School, Sept. 27, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Maplewood Elementary)
  • Austin High School, Sept. 28, noon-2 p.m. (District-wide)
  • Ridgetop Elementary School, Sept. 30, 8-9 a.m. (Ridgetop Elementary)
  • Northeast High School, Sept. 30, 6-8 p.m. (Webb MS, Dobie MS, Northeast HS, Ridgetop ES, Reilly ES)
  • Martin Middle School, Oct. 1, 6-8 p.m. (Brooke ES, Govalle ES, Linder ES, Pease ES, Zavala ES, Metz ES, Sanchez ES)
  • Joslin Elementary School, Oct. 2, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Joslin Elementary)
  • Dawson Elementary School, Oct. 3, noon-1 p.m. (Dawson Elementary)
  • Campbell Elementary School, Oct. 3, 6-8 p.m. (Maplewood ES, Campbell ES, Blackshear ES)
  • Bertha Sadler Means YWLA, Oct. 4, 8:30-9:30 a.m. (Bertha Sadler Means YWLA)
  • Pecan Springs Elementary School, Oct. 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m. (Pecan Springs Elementary School)
  • Gus Garcia YMLA, Oct. 8, 6-8 p.m. (Sadler Means YWLA, Garcia YMLA, Pecan Springs ES, Winn ES, Pickle ES, Sims ES, Norman ES)
  • Palm Elementary School, Oct. 9, 7:45-8:45 a.m. (Palm Elementary)
  • Crockett High School, Oct. 9, 6-8 p.m. (Joslin ES, Dawson ES, St. Elmo ES, Galindo ES)
  • Bedichek Middle School, Oct. 10, 6-8 p.m. (Palm ES, Perez ES, Langford ES, Covington MS)

Elizabeth Pagano is the editor of the Austin Monitor.