swraith
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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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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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Edited by swraith
forgot some words10 hours ago, Vegas64 said:There seems to be zero urgency on this thing. Stock market ticking up still somehow, informally and anectdotely, nobody I talk to seems to care that the government is shut down and most don't even know in a "oh, this that still happening is it still shut down? btw what does that even mean?"
It seems like the politically plugged in get it, but not sure how what % of the actual people that make up in the real world.
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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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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1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:
So, in true AISD fashion, they set their working GIS data for the attendance zone options to public. If you know what to search for, you can find them.
I don't know if these are what were considered or if one of these options was chosen. However, the last modified date is pretty recent.
Option 3 is the nuclear option. Half of Northwest Hills will drive past Anderson to go to Navarro along with all of Allandale and most of Crestview. It looks like LBJ, Northeast, and Eastside all get the axe.
Current: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=185958ef39cb4c15a016b9231ba17b8cOption 1: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=57e9c5655b4645859b3bd01c51f62e41
Option 2: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=85c7eab9962d4056a5540d5e5a5d79cb
Option 3: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=fe1cda4a5af24afabefc0369689d040a
EDIT: these maps are of the verticals. If you click on a boundary polygon, the pop up will tell you which elementary and middle schools will track to the high school in that option scenario.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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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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I wonder if there is somebody at the Pentagon currently brainstorming what to do with the 200+ US military installations spread across a range of NATO allied countries.