Publications

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Individuals with Disablities Education Act (ARRA IDEA), 2009-2010 Summary
This report summarizes 2009-2010 projects funded by AISD's $17 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act grant.

Midyear Report on Austin ISD's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Individuals with Disablities Education Act (ARRA IDEA) for 2009-2010
This report summarizes project results midyear during 2009-2010 for AISD's $17 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (ARRA IDEA) grant.

ARRA IDEA 2009-2010 Summary Report
This report summarizes the 2009-2010 results of 25 AISD's special education grant projects. Goals were to reduce the student achievement gap and disproportionality, improving teacher quality and district processes, and evaluating projects.

Summer School Evaluation Summary Report 2010
AISD provided summer programs in 2010 for students to accelerate academic learning, maintain academic skills between school years, recover course credits, retake state achievement tests, or experience school-level transition activities.

Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language Programs Summary Report 2009-2010
Twenty-nine percent of students enrolled in AISD were English language learners in 2009-2010. The majority of them (62%) continued to make progress in English proficiency and their TAKS scores have continued to improve over the years.

NCLB Title I Part A Research Brief, 2009-2010
AISD used more than $31 million federal Title I Part A funds in 2009-2010 to support almost 45,000 students at 71 Title I schools. This report summarizes compliance and service data.

Prekindergarten Evaluation Report 2009-2010
AISD served 5,450 pre-K students in 2009-2010. Approximately 70% of sampled English-speaking pre-K students and 74% of sampled Spanish-speaking pre-K students had faster than the expected growth rate in receptive vocabulary.

AISD Prekindergarten Program Longitudinal Summary Report, Issue 2: Half-Day versus Full-Day Programs, 2001-2002 Pre-K Cohort
Full-day pre-K students from the 2001–2002 cohort were more likely to pass the 2010 7th-grade reading TAKS than were kindergarten students from the 2002–2003 cohort who were assumed eligible for pre-K but did not attend pre-K in 2001–2002.

AISD Prekindergarten Program Longitudinal Summary Report, Issue 1: Long-Term Benefits, 2005-2006 Pre-K Cohort
Economically disadvantaged English language learners who were enrolled in the 2005-2006 AISD pre-K program performed better on the Spring 2010 reading and math TAKS than did similar students who first enrolled in AISD during kindergarten or later.

21st Century Community Learning Center Summary Report: Cycle IV- Lanier
This report summarizes 2009-2010 evaluation results of AISD's 21st Century Community Learning Center program at several schools.