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Reporter's Notebook: What blind spots?
Colossus of roads… “There’s no question that I am probably the largest road proponent in the Milky Way.” Thus Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty began a stemwinder about his transportation prescription for Central Texas at a luncheon hosted by the…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jan 29, 2018
Austin ISD delays decision to rename schools named for Confederate figures
The Austin Independent School District’s board of trustees is slowing down its timeline for a vote on whether to change the names of five schools named after Confederate figures. When the school board started this discussion in November, it proposed…
AISD • By Claire McInerny, KUT • Jan 26, 2018
AISD submits top picks for Transformation Zone partner
After meeting with representatives from eight Northeast Austin campus advisory councils last week, the Austin Independent School District administration has selected its top picks for the role of design partner in a Transformation Zone grant. Empower Schools Inc. from Boston…
AISD • By Joseph Caterine • Jan 16, 2018
2017: A Monitor year in review
City Manager search Oh boy. City Council closed out the year by (finally) appointing new City Manager Spencer Cronk more than a year after former manager Marc Ott announced his departure. That is great news for a city that has…
Austin • By Austin Monitor • Dec 29, 2017
No Austin schools are being consolidated ... yet
No Austin schools will permanently consolidate, but it could happen if under-enrolled schools in East Austin do not boost enrollment over the next few years. In documents published last week, timelines for school construction projects showed six schools in East…
AISD • By Claire McInerny, KUT • Dec 7, 2017
What is Alamo Drafthouse going to do with AISD property in Hyde Park?
The Austin Independent School District’s board of trustees voted this week to sell property in the Hyde Park neighborhood to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for $10.6 million. The Baker Center is in a former school building at 3908 Avenue B,…
AISD • By Claire McInerny, KUT • Dec 1, 2017
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School district announces first-year bond project timelines
The Austin Independent School District is not wasting any time putting the 2017 bond money to use, according to a presentation by Superintendent Paul Cruz at the school board’s Nov. 27 meeting. Cruz emphasized that strict adherence to project timelines…
AISD • By Joseph Caterine • Nov 30, 2017
AISD and Travis County bonds win easy victories
AISD Voters resoundingly supported the Austin Independent School District bond, which maintained a wide margin of victory all Tuesday evening. In the end, 72.06 percent voted in favor of the bond. Austin ISD posed a $1.05 billion bond question to…
Bonds & Propositions • By KUT News • Nov 8, 2017
Reporter's Notebook: Vows, complaints and questions
Not half bad… The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board of directors has been challenged to walk its talk. At last Tuesday’s work session, activist Zenobia Joseph took aim at the agency’s proposed bus network redesign and the claims that it…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 30, 2017
AISD seeks environmental flexibility in redevelopment of Barton Springs schools
The Austin Independent School District is one step closer to reaching an agreement with the city that would allow it to redevelop some of its overcrowded campuses in order to accommodate growth in student populations. At its meeting last Wednesday,…
AISD • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 23, 2017
Mentors help drive attendance at Austin schools
Students in Central Texas miss more days of school than kids in any other part of the state. Around 10 percent of local students are chronically absent, meaning they miss more than 18 school days a year. A quarter of…
AISD • By Claire McInerny, KUT • Oct 17, 2017
East Austin community looks to AISD for affordable housing
At a September meeting of the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees, almost half of the public comments weren’t about academic issues. Instead, they were about housing. Students, parents, teachers and other community members were asking the board to…
