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Flu Tips: Keep Yourself and Your Family Healthy
AISD Student Health Services, in collaboration with Dell Children’s Medical Center and Seton Healthcare Family, continues to monitor illness in the Austin region and absenteeism at AISD schools as a result of influenza and the common cold. The health of our students, staff members and AISD families is a priority. To help you stay healthy this time of year, AISD offers the following…
Vote on Options for the 2019–20 School Calendar / Votar en opciones para el calendario 2019–20
Austin ISD is currently working on the calendar for the 2019–20 school year. The Calendar Task Force has worked very hard to prepare three calendar options. Please take a moment to review the summary of each calendar option below and express your preference by voting on one option: https://tinyurl.com/2019-2020-AISD-Calendar. The survey closes at midnight Dec. 20. All the calendars include:
District Background Check
All contracted employees/vendors who will have continuing duties (more than one day) or services provided at multiple locations related to contracted services, performed on an occupied and/or unoccupied District site, are subject to a national background check review prior to engaging in work for the District. For construction management vendors and subcontractors only:
Hot Wheels: Anderson High School Para-Athlete Blazes Toward State
Anderson High School junior Hayden Sipple had never suited up for Trojans athletics. But when AHS track and field coach Daniel Hunter spied Sipple's incredible strength several months ago, the coach said he knew that had to change."I watched Hayden get out of his wheelchair and incline bench press 185 pounds just like our football players," Hunter said. "I immediately knew there was untapped…
Open for Learning Newsletter: Testing, CDC guidelines and more! / Boletín informativo Abierto para el aprendizaje: Pruebas, recomendaciones de los CDC ¡y más!
Thank you to the thousands of Austin ISD students and staff members who participated in the three days of free rapid COVID-19 testing. / Gracias a los miles de estudiantes y miembros del personal del Austin ISD que participaron en los tres días de las pruebas rápidas gratuitas de COVID-19.
Austin Family Support Co-op Meeting
The Austin Family Support Cooperative will host its next meeting on Tuesday, April. 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mendez Middle School, 5106 Village Square. The Family Support Cooperative is a partnership between AISD, Austin Travis County Integral Care and the Arc of the Capital Area created to inform and support families of children with disabilities.
Public Hearing: Facility Master Plan (FMP)
Austin ISD will host a public hearing about the Facility Master Plan (FMP), Monday, November 28 beginning at 6:00 p.m. The public hearing will be held at CAC, Board AuditoriumSpeakers may sign up beginning at 5:00 p.m. on November 28 in the Board Auditorium. Public comment sign-up will close at 6:30 p.m. Speakers will be allowed 2 minutes each to speak. Time may not be donated or yielded to other…
Why Austin ISD’s $1.05 Billion Bond Would Not Raise Property Tax Rates
When Austin ISD trustees called a $1.05 billion bond proposal in June, they said it would come with no tax rate increase, leaving some to wonder how that would be possible.AISD Chief Financial Officer Nicole Conley Johnson said that is partly because the district would not borrow the funds all at once.“We would be issuing about a billion dollars over five years,” said Conley Johnson. “Our goal is…
Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde Welcomes Students and Staff on the First Day of 2021-22 School Year
Austin ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde will welcome back students, families and staff during campus visits on the first day of school. What: Media will have the opportunity to follow Elizalde as she begins the year visiting campuses. Elizalde will be available at Sanchez Elementary School for interviews. Schedule and Visuals Tuesday, Aug. 17 7:30-8 a.m: Sanchez Elementary School, 73…
Austin ISD Teacher Found Passion Through Fellow Instructor, AVID
When Celia Hernandez took an AVID college preparatory class her freshman year, she had no idea just how much of an impact it would have on her life and her career. Today, Hernandez teaches her own AVID college class at Paredes Middle School, helping students learn to be academically and socially prepared for success in high school and then college. She attributes her love of teaching to a…