Help Austin ISD reinvent our public schools. Join us for a conversation regarding potential school consolidations, repurposing and program planning. Facilitated activities to reimagine the AISD of the future will follow the panel.
Panel: Academics and Economic Opportunity focusing on the district’s academic priorities and response to the changing economic landscape in Central Texas.
April 16, 6–8 p.m.
Bowie High School
4103 W Slaughter Ln
Families will be able to receive assistance with registering their students online for the 2019–20 school year as well as help with creating or accessing their Parent Cloud accounts.
The extravaganza will be held at Lanier High School, 1201 Peyton Gin Rd. from 9 a.m. –3 p.m. April 19.
For more information, contact Rob Story at 512-414-9187.
Austin Independent School District announced the selection of the new Executive Director of Special Education, Dr. Akweta Hickman. The Director is responsible for ensuring success for every child and provides leadership in developing a collaborative culture within the Department of Special Education.
At the annual statewide Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) sponsored by the Texas Art Education, the Austin Independent School District brought home top awards for 857 pieces of art created by high school students.
A series of Budget Town Hall listening sessions concluded on Feb. 23. A new format was introduced, creating space for more authentic, organic conversations. To ensure the dialogue was guided by the values and interests of participants, meetings were facilitated with the use of real-time polling technology.
This January, State Representative Donna Howard passed a resolution recognizing Akins High School's Future Lawyers of America as a leading program in legal education and the first high school legal aid program in the country.
Rep. Howard met with the student organization to explain the process of passing legislation, serving on committees and opportunities at the Capitol.
A+ Federal Credit Union has donated more than $2,000 to Austin ISD schools to pay off overdue lunch balances as part of its yearlong A+ Gives program. The program is in celebration of its 70 year anniversary and is designed to give back to the communities that have helped A+FCU grow over the past seven decades.
Each A+FCU branch selected a partner school to benefit from the program. The following campuses, donation amounts and branches are listed below:
The Multilingual Education Team is organizing the 2019 AISD Latino Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony to be held May 11 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the AISD Performing Arts Center. This event recognizes community members who have supported AISD’s Latino students, schools or district programs and promoted the Latino culture.
Austin ISD has been granted $750,000 as part of the Texas Education Agency Community Partnerships Initiative. The grant will focus on aligning academic programming as a core structure in the Reagan Early College High School learning community, complemented by streamlined student and family supports.
Austin ISD and the University of Texas College of Education hosted its first Collaborative Research Forum. The event brought together university- and district-based researchers to share findings, discuss compelling issues, and identify new areas of inquiry in pre-K-12 education. The intent was to facilitate ideas and collaborations across fields of study in ways that might open new avenues of research that improve outcomes for students, and more than 100 attended.
