A long-awaited list of which Austin Independent School District campuses will close for the 2026-2027 school year will be released to parents at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. In an Instagram video, Austin ISD Superintendent Matias Segura said the late-in-the-week announcement is “very very intentional.” “I know 5:30 p.m. on Friday isn’t the best time to receive […]
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Austin ISD to host meetings on closures as 12 more schools are flagged for failing grades
A dozen schools in the Austin Independent School District will need to close or make significant changes after receiving three consecutive failing grades from the state. The Texas Education Agency ratings were released last month. Austin ISD saw some improvements from last year, but roughly one third of the district’s 116 campuses still had unacceptable ratings. In […]
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Austin ISD gets a ‘C’ in latest school ratings. Here’s how to find your campus’ grade.
Following the release of long-awaited A-F accountability ratings from the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Austin Independent School District Superintendent Matias Segura said modest improvements in scores show the district is making progress. “There’s obviously a lot of work to get to do with the number of D’s and F’s that we have, but when you look at […]
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Austin Independent School district buys more time for plan to address Dobie Middle School, but prepares for seismic shifts
After years of deferrals and litigation, new state mandates for public school performance are finally catching up to Austin Independent School District, leaving hundreds of its children, teachers, and administrators unsure if they will have a school to return to come August. Dobie Middle School, a Title 1 campus on East Rundberg Lane, faces an […]
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Austin ISD gets a C under Texas’ updated school rating system
Austin ISD earned a C for the 2022-23 school year under the state’s academic accountability system. The C marks a slide from the previous year when the district earned a B before the Texas Education Agency started using more rigorous criteria to calculate school ratings. Superintendent Matias Segura said Austin ISD and other school districts […]
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Austin public education advocates blast Trump’s order aiming to close Education Department
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to phase out the U.S. Department of Education – an agency that provides loans and grants to college students, distributes federal funding to schools and is tasked with protecting students’ civil rights. The move follows significant layoffs at the department, including staff at a regional office in Dallas. In […]
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Austin ISD hits key milestone to reduce backlog of special education evaluations
The Austin Independent School District this week met a key requirement outlined in a state-ordered plan to improve its special education services. The Texas Education Agency’s corrective action plan required Austin ISD to complete all overdue special education evaluations for which parental permission was obtained before the 2022-23 school year by Oct. 31. AISD also needed […]
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Austin-area school districts want a Travis County judge to block changes to how Texas grades them
A Travis County judge is considering whether to block the Texas Education Agency from making changes to the A-F accountability rating system, which evaluates school performance. Seven school districts, including Del Valle ISD, sued Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath in August. Since then, more than 90 districts have joined the lawsuit as either plaintiffs or intervenors. Central […]
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Austin ISD may still face conservatorship under the state’s alternative special ed plan
Austin Independent School District has released the plan that the Texas Education Agency proposed to improve special education services in the district. Interim Superintendent Matias Segura announced Wednesday that the TEA had presented the district an alternative to a special education conservatorship but shared few specifics during a news conference. TEA officials recommended a conservatorship after an investigation […]
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Austin ISD requests review of state’s plan to manage its special education department
The Austin Independent School District announced Monday that it is requesting an informal review of the state’s plan to oversee the district’s special education department. Texas Education Agency officials announced last month that they wanted to install conservators because Austin ISD was failing to meet the needs of students with disabilities. “We are requesting a […]
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There’s no easy fix to Austin ISD’s special education evaluation backlog. Students are left waiting.
Kathryn Whitley Chu’s daughter was 2 and a half years old when the COVID-19 pandemic began. While stuck at home, her family had gotten used to the way the young girl spoke. But when she returned to preschool 17 months later, teachers and students struggled to understand her speech. “We could understand her,” Whitley Chu said. […]
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Austin ISD earns a ‘B’ rating from Texas Education Agency
Austin Independent School District earned an overall grade of “B” from the Texas Education Agency’s school accountability system, which is based in part on standardized testing scores. TEA issued the grades on Monday for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic. The last time AISD was rated in 2019, the district also received a B. […]