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Media Advisory: AISD Celebrates Designation as Largest No Place for Hate® District in Nation
AUSTIN, Texas—Austin ISD’s Cultural Proficiency & Inclusiveness, in the Office of Academics, is proud to announce that AISD has earned the designation as the largest No Place for Hate® district in the nation.What: All AISD principals are invited to celebrate AISD’s designation as the largest No Place for Hate® district in the nation and will receive a banner to display at their respective…
AISD Board of Trustees Approves New Principal Appointments
On Monday, Austin ISD's Board of Trustees approved new principal appointments for Govalle and Harris elementary schools and Gorzycki Middle School.
AISD Foreign Language Students Perform Well on National Exams
More than 1,300 students across the Austin Independent School District recently opted to undergo the national foreign language exams in French, German, Latin and Spanish—335 of which received highest honors for their scores.
Superintendent Announces Schools Frozen to Transfers for 2016–17
Austin ISD Superintendent Paul Cruz last night announced the names of 23 schools that will be frozen to transfers during the 2016–17 school year.Each year, AISD determines which schools should be frozen to transfers because they have, or are expected to have, enrollments that exceed their capacities. Some schools also are frozen to maintain stability in tracking patterns.Schools frozen to…
Families as Partners Parent Champion Initiative
Motivated by the dual-capacity framework for family-school partnerships, one initiative of the Families as Partners program is to enhance the capabilities, connections, cognition, and confidence of parents. This report focuses on the capacity building of the 2018–2019 parent champion initiative.Student Registration Opens This Week
Parents are now able to register students online for the upcoming school year through the Austin ISD Parent Cloud or at any AISD campus. Registration is open for students within AISD's boundaries and for out-of-district transfers who apply to attend schools with availability.
Austin ISD Opens Transfer Window
You can have it all in Austin ISD, even if a program you’re interested in isn’t offered at your neighborhood school.
An Iraqi teacher gives families a voice at Travis Heights Elementary School (En Español)
As Austin ISD celebrates Arab American Heritage Month, we profile Sura Jasim, who works at Travis Heights Elementary School as a Parent Support Specialist, a link between the school district and parents.
AISD Invites Realtors to Tour Campuses in the LBJ Early College High School Family of Schools
Realtors will be riding an AISD school bus to visit four schools in east Austin to learn more about their academic programming, all to give Realtors a better idea of neighborhood schools in areas they may sell homes. The visit includes LBJ Early College High School, Gus Garcia Young Men's Leadership Academy, Bertha Sadler Means Young Women's Leadership Academy and Blanton Elementary School.…
The Impact of Multilingual Summer School on Emergent Bilingual Students’ Beginning-of-Year (BOY) Performance in 2021–2022
This report describes the impact of the 2021 AISD multilingual summer school program on incoming kindergarten and 1st-grade emergent bilingual students’ (N = 933) fall academic performance. Relative to matched comparison groups, students who attended summer school were significantly more likely to…