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Purpose of TELPAS TELPAS (Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System) is designed to assess the progress that emergent bilingual students make in learning the English language. It helps schools and teachers track each student’s English language development over time to help ensure students are making progress in English language skills. What TELPAS Measures TELPAS…
Nourishing Bodies and Minds: 43 Austin ISD Schools to Provide Free Breakfast and Lunch to All Students
To help improve healthy food access, 43 Austin ISD campuses will adopt the Community Eligibility Provision for the 2018–19 school year.
Austin ISD's Anneliese Tanner Named Austin Under 40: Youth and Education Winner
Austin Under 40 held its 21st Annual Awards Gala at JW Marriot Downtown, on May 18 to honor fifteen Austin professionals under the age of 40 across a variety of industries, including, Legal, Technology, Medicine and healthcare, Real Estate, Youth and Education and more.
Austin ISD's Anneliese Tanner Named Austin Under 40: Youth and Education Winner
Austin Under 40 held its 21st Annual Awards Gala at JW Marriot Downtown, on May 18 to honor fifteen Austin professionals under the age of 40 across a variety of industries, including, Legal, Technology, Medicine and healthcare, Real Estate, Youth and Education and more.
Food resources during Austin ISD closure (Recursos de alimentos)
We know that access to healthy food may be challenging when the district is closed. Families can use the community resources below to find free meals in their area while Austin ISD offices and schools are closed: Central Texas Food Bank United Way for Greater Austin - ConnectATX
Media Advisory: USDA Food and Nutrition Leader Visits Ann Richards School Wednesday
AUSTIN, Texas—Tomorrow, Janey Thornton, deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will visit the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders to learn about Austin ISD’s farm-to-school program and how the district is meeting new federal nutritional guidelines for foods served in school cafeterias.
AISD Cafes to Feature Local, Grass-fed Beef in School Cafeterias
The Austin Independent School District will provide local-sourced food in school cafeterias with an increase in student lunch participation.
Local 8th grader raises money to pay off student lunch debt Check presentation on May 23
An eighth-grader from a local area school, Ben Hofer has pledged to eliminate the school lunch debt for Austin ISD's 129 schools. Hofer started this project he's calling "LunchCounts!" as part of a school project, with a goal of raising $18,000 to pay off all of the school lunch debt in the district. Hofer has raised more than $9,000 for his cause since launching the GoFundMe campaign on…
AISD Celebrates National School Lunch Week Oct. 15-18
Austin ISD is celebrating National School Lunch Week Oct. 15-18 to recognize the National School Lunch Program, as well as, appreciation for its Food Service Workers and the more than 75,000 meals served every day. National School Lunch Week emphasizes healthy, global and local foods offered daily at AISD schools.
AISD to Provide Free Produce Boxes featuring Texas-Grown Foods
Austin ISD families will receive free produce boxes at AISD curbside meal sites beginning Wednesday, July 22. The boxes will feature locally grown produce, such as peppers, melons, squash, carrots and other seasonal staples. The Common Market Texas, a mission-driven distributor of sustainable, local farm foods will prepare and deliver the produce boxes to AISD. …