Everything posted by swraith
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
pretty much
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
Dec 25, Bergstrom Hi/Low 57/76 Camp Mabry Hi/Low 58/75 on the humid side
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Hey Oil Barons.......
Some of the mid-range weather forecasts for the first 2 weeks December are putting another shot of cold weather into the Great Lakes.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Hmm. Is Segura throwing one of his staff under the bus? Austin ISD plans to keep open 3 schools originally slated to close At some point, it will come out which staff member(s) were removed from the team.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
WTF is that email that AISD superintendent just sent out? “In the past few days, members of our community have brought forward significant concerns about the integrity of specific individuals leading the process of applying community feedback to the updated plan.”
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
So AISD listened to feedback and made a change that was an improvement?
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
If that is what is needed to help balance the budget, I don't see the concern being worth the pearl clutching. Collect what money you can.
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Trumps War on Everything
Is the U.S. trying to oust the government in Venezuela ?
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/education/schools/sources-say-state-to-take-over-fort-worth-isd/287-246d8afb-4d06-4912-910b-a94c4784af81 Sounds like FWISD is already making substantial progress on improving the ratings of its schools but I’m sure TEA will ignore that as they take over the district.
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Downtown Projects
heh. it's got a gondola.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Agreed with the lack of awareness of TEA takeover of HISD. I have family with kids in Spring Branch ISD. They are not aware or even following the HISD takeover. I have raised the topic with them multiple times and they are just totally unaware of it happening.
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Lake Travis 2024: Countdown To Zero
I can't complain about a new reservoir being built. We probably need even more to be built.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
I'm hoping my 8th grader at Lamar gets into LASA. I will figure out the transportation challenges. Then I will keep my fingers crossed that TEA doesn't close down LASA if they takeover.
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Downtown Projects
I think that bridge is pretty cool.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
The AISD trustee meeting is today ? Does anybody have an update on that meeting ?
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Blastfurnace 2025
sigh Flash Drought fall gardening is a beating with no rain
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Maybe if TSA and air traffic control go more than month without a paycheck, people will create urgency to revolve this prior to Thanksgiving travel.
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Amazon Prime Day Deals
yeah RAM prices have just been on a rising trend. I checked eBay for some used so-dimms and it is absurd what eBay prices are as well.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Don't look at the maps posted earlier this afternoon. the document links to this tool to check boundaries for a given address. Preliminary Boundaries (October 3, 2025) | Límites Escolares Preliminares (3 de octubre de 2025)
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Is the document saying no high schools are closing? Kids are basically being shifted eastward to fill up seats in high school.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
You weren't joking. Option 3 is panic inducing. Maybe that is just being floated to make either Option 1 or 2 more palatable.
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The destruction of America's public education system
TEA takeover may be inevitable, but I'm in denial and continue to hope it can be avoided.
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The destruction of America's public education system
Lamar's attendance boundary is absolutely massive. The eastern edge of its boundary map could be changed to release some of its zoned students to any combination of O'Henry, Kealing, Webb, and Martin. That would bring down Lamar's over capacity issue. Which is called out on rubric with "School zone is too crowded". Lamar's cost per student in terms of Building & Operations is high and should be addressed longer term. I just don't see a scenario where Lamar is closed, particularly given its status as Fine Arts Academy, unless AISD decides to do away completely with the academy concept. I agree that "pain" is going to be distributed but I think that will come by major boundary zone changes, not by closing overcrowded schools on the west side. Though the Bryker Woods parents seem to be in full force to save their school from perceived threats of closure. Bryker Woods rubric score is identical to Gullett. So maybe I'm just not reading the tea leaves correctly.
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The destruction of America's public education system
Wooten's elementary closing seems a strong possibility based on the data rubric. I think the attendance zones would be modified for Brentwood to keep their capacity manageable. Based on the data rubric, why do you think Gullet would be closed and merged with Pillow?
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Markets still falling like whoa
I'm surprised by the lack of equity or bond market reaction to Trump firing Lisa Cook Trump moves to fire Lisa Cook from Federal Reserve board