Austin Independent School District

It's only a matter of time before they ask you to go to the polls and approve another property tax increase.

And I don't care whether it's the City of Austin, Round Rock ISD, Austin ISD, Travis County, any of them.

Any governing body out there in the public sector should be rejected from a property tax increase and bonds until every single one of them opens up their books and shows people with a, with an independent audit and not in this, "You know, well, we've checked our work, and we found no problems."

The Round Rock story, how much did taxes go up? It was...

the $200 raise I'm getting this year as a result of this tax increase."

Yep.

Yeah, I mean, we've seen it happen in pla- in, in Austin ISD a couple of years ago, I think.

That was the exact same issue.

Eight school districts, including Fort Worth ISD, are currently under TEA control.

Austin ISD is also in danger of a state takeover after two middle school campuses received five consecutive failing grades.

A Brazos County jury has indicted a man accused of murdering a professional boxer from the Houston area.

Charles Medina is charged with murder and one count of aggravated assault, according to the district attorney's office.

So, you know, comparing HISD to other districts across the greater Houston area isn't always the perfect match, you know.

We're seeing enrollment declines in Austin ISD and other more urban districts.

The enrollment decline is something to watch for Houston ISD.

I mean, also, the district is built to service 200,000 students, so those bills don't disappear.

So he said that his office will be doing a performance review of four, uh, Texas school districts to ensure transparency and responsible use of public funds.

He picked four, four districts of different sizes in terms of enrollment, AISD is the biggest one, and also different locations in the state.

So we have Austin ISD, um, El Paso ISD, Barbers Hill ISD, which is east of Houston, and then also Prosper ISD, which is north of Dallas.

Okay, so now we know what is going to happen.

And we also reached out to the district asking for an interview or for comment, but we haven't heard back.

Uh, but back in August, the TA flagged that Austin ISD hadn't lowered their student-staff ratio despite losing enrollment.

But AISD officials over the years have said that they have decreased administrative costs in, during board meetings, we see very often uh, a, a chart that shows their admin cost that has been going down.

Okay.

Internal documents show the Austin Police Department and the Austin Independent School District failed to communicate properly with each other and with families.

The miscommunication led to some parents taking their kids to school while the gunman who shot his girlfriend and a police officer was still on the run.

A year later, QUT's education reporter Greta Diaz-Gonzalez-Vasquez has the timeline of how AISD officials communicated internally and what both agencies, AISD and APD, have changed since then.

On September 10th last year, a gunman shot his girlfriend and an APD officer near Silver Park.

It was just after 4

At 528, the Austin Police Department issued a shelter in place for the surrounding neighborhoods.

Internal documents show Austin Independent School District officials began communicating on the matter about an hour later.

AISD Police Chief Wayne Sneed says one of his officers was sent to APD's command center to get real-time information that morning, but he wasn't wearing a uniform.

Obviously, this is a very important extracurricular activity for a lot of young people in the band.

When you hear AISD say that not a single band has missed a football game or a competition...

It sounds to me like the parents have pulled together to do what they got to do, and the kids are still fine.

So they had to carry their instruments on their laps for a little while.

Okay.

If you get caught by the Austin School District running by school buses and get 26 tickets, do you think it's plausible that you're not paying attention to school buses anymore? I'm going to say that the C-suite has a dashboard for how often you're running by school buses and beating on the development team every time it happens to get that number lower, right? Yeah.

So why can't that, why does Austin have to ask, have to instrument their buses to find out how it's happening? The, the Robotexy company knows if they don't know, they shouldn't be on the road.

Of course they know.