In cooperation with the Austin Independent School District’s Any Given Child Initiative, Ballet Austin will award four scholarships to selected area dance students. The scholarships will be presented to two elementary students from Reilly and Blackshear elementary schools, and two rising eighth grade students from Lamar Middle School.

This month, the City of Austin recognized Cunningham Elementary School and Fulmore Middle School for their work implementing sustainability projects on their campuses with help of the city's Bright Green Future Grant. 

AISD Superintendent Meria Carstarphen joined distinguished speakers, including Bill Gates, at this year's SXSWedu conference, where innovative thinkers and doers tackled some of the most important issues in education—from standards and assessment to achievement gaps and educational equality.

Dear Team AISD,

It feels as if we were just singing Call Me Maybe at the district's All-Staff Convocation and kicking off the 2012-13 school year with the first day of school. 

And now, as the school year has drawn to a close, I’m happy to share with you that all of your hard work to serve our 86,000 students has not only made a difference—it has made 2012-13 a banner year for Austin ISD. 

The AISD Bilingual Department will host a community meeting to focus on the benefits of dual-language education on Austin students.

At the event, Dr. Virginia P. Collier and Wayne P. Thomas will present parents and community members with recent research findings that illustrate the ways in which dual language education programs have been shown to greatly improve education for all students. 

As part of AISD's summer energy efficiency program, the district will be closed for one week over July 1-5. Because Thursday, July 4, is a holiday, employees are already off work that day. For the remaining days, all 12-month employees who are on duty will be required to use accumulated vacation time. The average savings from summer shutdown save the district $387,000.