School Finance Plan Headed for Hearing

Aycock promises no losers as Senate obsesses on vouchers

"...Can Texas avoid further school finance lawsuits? That's what House Public Education Committee Chair..."

April 8, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Abbott Flirts With Endorsing School Vouchers

Primary challengers pressure the governor from the right

"...put a push behind a key red-meat issue like school choice, be it vouchers or private school tax credits...."

Jan. 28, 2022 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Who Killed Porter Middle School?

The evidence points to George W. Bush. But he wasn't alone.

"...A school died in Austin this week. The causes were definitely..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Texas Lege Preview: Are School Vouchers a Shoo-In?

House Dems (and rural Republicans) ready to rally for public education

"...the Texas House, has two children in Austin ISD schools. "My fifth-grader didn't get a teacher this year because..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Judge: Texas School Finance System Unconstitutional

Now what? Legislators, education advocates and think tanks respond

"...finally released his ruling yesterday on the Texas public school finance system, it was no surprise to anyone: The..."

Feb. 5, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: Spotify Gifts Kealing Middle School

After the SXSW carnival leaves town, Kealing Middle School will have something to show for it – thanks to Spotify

"...to build a recording studio at nearby Kealing Middle School...."

Feb. 26, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

"It Was a Difficult Choice, But..."

The Austin Critics Table named its tops in the arts for 2014

"...you hear a critic say, "It was a difficult choice, but...," take a drink...."

June 3, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

High School Stakes

Austin ISD election could shape a new direction for the district

"...On Nov. 6, voters in the Austin Inde­pen­dent School District won't just be selecting new trustees. They will..."

Oct. 5, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: School Finance Bill Passes House With Flying Colors

Stickland only holdout on ambitious “Texas Plan” finance bill

"...House Bill 3, the session's marquee school finance legislation, survived over three hours of debate on..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Point Austin: No Choice

When bosses say their hands are tied, handcuffs follow

"...humanitarian mission in support of his Foundation for Educational Choice, a voucher-promoting operation that helped lay the ideological groundwork..."

July 1, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Johnston High School Is Dead; Long Live ...?

Johnston High will get a new name and perhaps a new lease on life

"...The death of Johnston High School was a painful, five-year process. But the birth of..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Looking for a School Chief

AISD zigzags its way to a new superintendent

"...It's been 10 years since the Austin Independent School District last searched for a new superintendent, and to..."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Pro-Choice Demonstrators Turn Out by the Thousands

Protests at schools, the Texas Capitol continue after leaked Supreme Court decision

"...Two days after Austin high school students staged walkouts across the city to champion abortion..."

May 20, 2022 News Feature by Hannah Uebele

Patrick Bullies School ISD Over Transgender Policy

Lt. Gov. calls for resignation of Ft. Worth superintendent

"...anti-LGBTQ state official from Houston meddled in the Dallas-area school district after it approved rules in late April that..."

May 10, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Choice Is Yours

Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

"...spent the whole first week cleaning the abandoned elementary school we were all living in, because it was so..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lege Finds Even More Funds for Anti-Choice Grifters

Alternatives to Abortion program gets $100M in House budget

"...proposed $246 billion two-year budget included decisions to ban school vouchers, restrict some funding to the office of Texas..."

April 23, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Challenges of Going Back to School

Parents, teachers, and students share their anxieties over starting the fall semester while COVID-19 is still rampant

"...an experiment and the decisions about going back into school buildings are being made by people who have either..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature

What Follows Five Years of Failure at Mendez Middle School?

Making the grade

"...as part of its new A-F accountability system, five schools in the Austin Independent School District received failing grades...."

Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Chartering Middle School

Hoping to reach middle-schoolers who could go off track in a regular school setting, district moves forward with charter school plans

"...summer, 21-year-old Melinda Shaw will finally graduate from high school. The slender, ponytailed African-American dropped out of school at..."

June 2, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Getting School to Work

Aided by an infusion of new tax dollars from high-tech and other industries, Del Valle ISD finds success by investing heavily in school-to-career programs.

"...of technological innovation -- present-day realities in the state's school system stand out like smallpox sores. Texas leads in..."

Dec. 31, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

School of Hard Knocks

Number Discrepancies

"...But schools are under increasing pressure to prepare students for college,..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Local K-12 Educators Look at Ways to Start the School Year as COVID-19 Looms

Put on your thinking cap

"...for such interactive, kinesthetic science lessons in the new school year is nearly impossible. As a pandemic makes the..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Aaricka Washington

McMoldy High School?

For one McCallum High student, every day is a sick day

"...Deusen pulled her daughter Nika Perry permanently out of school last April – with just a month left until..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

School Finance: Where We Are and How We Got Here

The Supreme Court's ruling leaves a lot of blanks for the Lege to fill in

"...a Texas Supreme Court decision that declared the state's school finance system to be teetering on the brink of..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Back to School

From Dallas to the Border, Texas shortchanges its children and its future

"...distance the state needs to travel to address the school finance crisis might be expressed in Mean Republican Units..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Column by Michael King

As COVID Surges, AISD to Offer Virtual School

Remote option for K-6 students too young for vaccine

"...and the concerns of a heated "my child, my choice" call campaign during public comment, Gov. Greg Abbott and..."

July 30, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Texas Anti-Choice Legislation Continues to Damage Health Care and Undermine Local Control

As GOP postures with SB 22, women’s health care pays the price

"...Now Hansen is a 31-year-old Dell Medical School student preparing to deliver OB-GYN care, and she has..."

May 17, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Obama's School Daze

Local schools react to the hubbub over Obama's school speech

"...President Barack Obama's Sept. 8 back-to-school message to the nation's children was, the Texas Education..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Deep-Pocket Donors Fund Right-Wing School Board Candidates in the Austin Suburbs

Drama outside of town

"...Those activists are turning out on the ballots of school board races, where opposition to masks, vaccine mandates, and..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

2006 People's Choice Winner: It had to be ewe

Visitors to Austin City Hall voted on the 101 works of art displayed in the 2006 People's Gallery exhibition, and their top choice was Benge Elliott's sculpture, Three Sheep

"...by the votes they cast in the 2006 People's Choice competition – was the welded sculpture Three Sheep, depicting..."

March 2, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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