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In December, the AISD Board of Trustees approved six Annual Academic and Facilities Recommendations, including expanding dual language immersion programs, addressing overcrowding in north central elementary schools and creating, an in-district...

Attention Science Enthusiasts! AISD has been awarded an Intel grant to conduct an Intel Austin Mini-Educator Academy this summer. The academy will provide fifteen AISD teachers with the knowledge, skills and resources to assist and motivate...

AISD has been awarded a $320,000 grant from Dairy MAX to implement Fuel Up to Play 60, a fund and interactive in-school nutrition and physical activity program, in all of the district's elementary schools. Fuel Up to Play 60, which was launched by...

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Recent Press Releases from Austin ISD

AISD Launches Innovative English Language Learning and Integration Program for Spanish-Speaking Parents

February 1, 2012

Austin, TX—Austin Independent School District and the Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together (MATT) Foundation plan to enroll 1,000 Spanish-speaking parents to the Maestro en casa (“teacher at home”) English-language immersion and immigrant integration program this school semester. The home study, life skills program is aimed at helping AISD parents with basic English language vocabulary and also improving the family’s understanding of the public education system in Austin. “We are very excited to be able to offer this innovative integration program to our parents in Austin,” said Alex...

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