AISD to hold school closure meetings

Last week, the Austin Independent School District announced that 12 schools could be closed. Now the school district is soliciting feedback from Austinites in a series of public meetings. Residents are invited to discuss plans at campus-specific meetings, district-wide meetings, or by participating online via this portal. Public meetings will take place through Oct. 10. All meetings are listed below, with the meetings’ focus in parentheses:

• Pease Elementary School, Sept. 23, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Pease Elementary)
• Metz Elementary School, Sept. 24, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Metz Elementary)
• Sims Elementary School, Sept. 25, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Norman-Sims Elementary)
• Webb Middle School, Sept. 25, 5:30-7:00 p.m. (Webb Middle School)
• Brooke Elementary School, Sept. 26, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Brooke Elementary)
• Maplewood Elementary School, Sept. 27, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Maplewood Elementary)
• Austin High School, Sept. 28, noon-2 p.m. (District-wide)
• Ridgetop Elementary School, Sept. 30, 8-9 a.m. (Ridgetop Elementary)
• Northeast High School, Sept. 30, 6-8 p.m. (Webb MS, Dobie MS, Northeast HS, Ridgetop ES, Reilly ES)
• Martin Middle School, Oct. 1, 6-8 p.m. (Brooke ES, Govalle ES, Linder ES, Pease ES, Zavala ES, Metz ES, Sanchez ES)
• Joslin Elementary School, Oct. 2, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (Joslin Elementary)
• Dawson Elementary School, Oct. 3, noon-1 p.m. (Dawson Elementary)
• Campbell Elementary School, Oct. 3, 6-8 p.m. (Maplewood ES, Campbell ES, Blackshear ES)
• Bertha Sadler Means YWLA, Oct. 4, 8:30-9:30 a.m. (Bertha Sadler Means YWLA)
• Pecan Springs Elementary School, Oct. 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m. (Pecan Springs Elementary School)
• Gus Garcia YMLA, Oct. 8, 6-8 p.m. (Sadler Means YWLA, Garcia YMLA, Pecan Springs ES, Winn ES, Pickle ES, Sims ES, Norman ES)
• Palm Elementary School, Oct. 9, 7:45-8:45 a.m. (Palm Elementary)
• Crockett High School, Oct. 9, 6-8 p.m. (Joslin ES, Dawson ES, St. Elmo ES, Galindo ES)
• Bedichek Middle School, Oct. 10, 6-8 p.m. (Palm ES, Perez ES, Langford ES, Covington MS)