January 2012
6 posts
AISD’s IDEA: What's the Plan for Martin Middle...
To the AISD Board of Trustees:
My name is Luke Muszkiewicz, an Eastside resident and father of a Metz Elementary 3rd grader.
With your decision to replace Allan and eventually Eastside Memorial with IDEA in-district charter schools, I’m here to speak on behalf of parents who are struggling to understand what this momentous change means for their neighborhood and their children.
If IDEA is...
“One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that...”
– Interview of Bill Clinton by Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On
Please Clarify IDEA Opt-Out Procedure
Dr. Carstarphen, Board of Trustees, and Mr. Sanchez:
I realize you’re scheduled to discuss allocating bond funds this evening, but I would ask that you take a few minutes to explain how parents of children assigned to attend IDEA Public Schools next fall can opt-out and instead attend a different Austin Independent School District school.
Specifically, how do parents of children set to...
Opposing IDEA in AISD: What's Next?
We lost. And by lost I mean that not only did the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees vote to partner with IDEA to replace Allan Elementary and Eastside Memorial High School with IDEA charter schools, but that all the testimony, all the letters, and all the phone calls didn’t seem to garner even a meaningful response from the Board (or District), much less a “no”...
AISD Hid Response to Concerns Over IDEA's...
Nearly three weeks after the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees voted to approve their partnership with IDEA to create two in-district charter schools, chief performance officer Bill Caritj released his favorable assessment of IDEA’s student performance data in response to Ed Fuller’s overwhelmingly negative analysis published in mid-November.
Before we get too deep...
