Texas Education Agency Hotline

The Texas Education Agency is operating a toll-free hotline over the holiday weekend to assist parents and educators meet the needs of students evacuated from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama due to Hurricane Katrina. The toll-free hotline number is 800-957-5109.

This 800 number will be manned by Texas Education Agency staff from 8:00 a.m. - 6::00 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Labor Day). The 800 number will also be in operation Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.

For more TEA information including FAQs, please visit the TEA web site at www.tea.state.tx.us

Enrolling in AISD

The Austin School District will have counselors, student service specialists and other personnel at the Austin Convention Center from Tuesday through Friday, September 6-9, to continue enrolling the school-age evacuees of Hurricane Katrina.

Buses will begin picking up these students at the Austin Convention Center on Thursday morning, September 8, to transport them to their new Austin schools.

School District personnel have been stationed at the Convention Center since it opened early Saturday morning to hurricane refugees, assisting with health care and other necessary provisions, and preparing to enroll students.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 6-7, District personnel will meet with students and parents at the Convention Center to make actual school assignments.

At 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, September 8, buses will depart the Convention Center with students, parents and AISD Parent Support Specialists aboard, to visit their new schools. After a brief tour of the school, meeting their new teachers and classroom, and receiving lunch, the students and their parents will return to the Convention Center at approximately 1 pm. The same schedule will be followed on Friday, September 9.

On Monday, September 12, students now living at the Convention Center will begin a full-day of classes at their new Austin schools.

Officials also announced that, as of Friday, September 2, approximately 55 evacuee students had already enrolled in Austin schools. These evacuees are staying with family or friends, or are living in motels or other accommodations, and enrolled in the neighborhood school where they are staying.

Other AISD Resources

If evacuees are staying with family or friends who reside in the AISD attendance area, they are able to enroll their children in neighborhood school(s) where they are staying. If the neighborhood schools are not known, contact the AISD Student Services Office at 414-1726.

If evacuees are staying within AISD boundaries, they are eligible to attend Austin schools. Call AISD’s Project Help at 414-0760.

Children who are enrolled in AISD are eligible for medical services. Call AISD Student Health Services at 414-6171 to make an appointment with Skippy Express.