swraith
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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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heh. it's got a gondola.
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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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I can't complain about a new reservoir being built. We probably need even more to be built.
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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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I think that bridge is pretty cool.
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The AISD trustee meeting is today ? Does anybody have an update on that meeting ?
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10 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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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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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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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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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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38 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
Does any of this really matter when TEA takes over in 1-2 years?
TEA takeover may be inevitable, but I'm in denial and continue to hope it can be avoided.
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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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2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:
Strong rumor going around that Wooten Elementary will close and merge with Brentwood which puts that school over capacity.
I'm gonna guess our home elementary, Gullett, is gonna get fucked and merged with Pillow.
From the Zoom call, it sounds like the Beckett Elementary community already knows they're also closing.
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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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 -
are NFTs even still a thing? seems so very passing fad at this point
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Be interesting to see that section get some life again. That entire property always seems like a dead zone.
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Fingers crossed power comes back over night. Kids last day of school is going to suck if there is no power in the home.
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Now we wait for Austin Energy power restoration. Feels like it could be a while. The texting service has no ETA
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Ho making references to Denny's
Appeals court Judge Ho rebukes Supreme Court for deportation flight decision -
Trumps War on drugs, Venezuela and Colombia
in Cloak Room
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Is the U.S. trying to oust the government in Venezuela ?