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Beginning in the fall, the Austin Independent School District will be significantly scaling back the way it disciplines children who act up. The goal is to reduce racial disparities, which show Black and brown students are being disproportionately punished compared to their white classmates. According to data compiled by the district, Black children at AISD were nearly five times more likely than their white peers to receive disciplinary action, include suspensions, being placed at a disciplinary campus or being expelled.

After protests and complaints about Austin ISD renting space to a church that doesn't allow gay members, the district is getting creative with its response. It plans to take $10,000 of the money it's received in rent payments, and use it to boost student participation in the Austin Pride parade. Previously, the district has relied on donations to pay for the transportation, security, and entrance fee to participate. "Austin ISD is committed to providing welcoming environments to all of our students," said AISD Communication and Engagement Executive Director Reyne Telles. "All means all for us, and that comes in a...

"We are looking at about a $65 million estimated shortfall in our budget this year... a draft of suggested budget cuts for the district was discussed last week at an AISD board work session. This documented suggested: Realigning and reducing academic and (estimated savings of $2.51 million). Anticipated staffing reductions due to enrollment declines (estimated savings of $3.41 million). Changing the schedules at LASA and LBJ to be consistent with all other high schools (estimated savings of $720,000). Across-the-board cut 5 percent reduction to school supply allocations (estimated savings of $560,000) A revised actuarial foran employee health plan (estimated savings...

This organization has been in the front lines in raising attention to Wahhabi Emirate Qatar Foundation penetration into US schools under the guise of Arabic Language learning. Haven't you heard that language learning "increases a child's cognitive development"? Yea right. Qatar makes sure that it's worthwhile though, in dropping off hundreds of thousands of dollars to "bridge" our worlds. The multicultural marxists just lap this up, not just the school board apparatchiks lined up with Islamocommie in the White House. All of this of course traces back to Common Core iniatives, such as Connect All Schools in bridging and indoctrinating...

An Austin High School student suspected that something was amiss, police say, when the driver of the bus he and nine other teens were riding wheeled into a parking lot for an unexpected stop at a Jack in the Box. He used his cell phone to alert his father about the unusual Friday afternoon trip home, and a few minutes later, authorities had arrested and charged the driver of Bus 6034 with driving while intoxicated with children in the vehicle. Austin school officials placed Christina Bell Lowery, 47, on administrative leave with pay Monday and said they are in the...