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Conservative critics said Austin ISD was encouraging students not to tell their parents what they were learning during discussions of LGBTQ issues in class.

An increasingly bitter political fight over sexual identity finds a new target: the Austin school districts annual Pride Week celebration.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent the Austin Independent School District a letter saying they are in “violation” of state law because of the district's “Pride week."

An elementary school in Austin, Texas held a pride parade in its halls during a ‘Pride Week’ which the school reportedly did not inform the parents was happening. A video taken inside the school [...]

An increasingly bitter political fight over sexual identity finds a new target: the Austin school districts annual Pride Week celebration.

Kindergarteners, first and second-graders taught they can be “trans” and “non-binary"

Beginning this fall, Austin ISD parent­-teacher associations will no longer be allowed to fund staff positions at their schools, a decision met with mixed reactions across the broadly diverse urban school district. Some campus communities felt bruised by the districts haphazard communication and speedy timeline for change at their schools, while other stakeholders were incredulous that AISD ever allowed such a practice in the first place. The decision impacts 31 staff positions at a dozen ele...

Posted by Miles Bloxson on Feb 26, 2021 Jake Lloyd grew up in Round Rock, Texas just 20 minutes outside of Austin in a musically inclined family.  His father and grandfather sang in the church and his grandmother was a professionally trained organ and piano player. Growing up Jake listened to eclectic artists like Rick James and Prince, which would later shape his one-of-a-kind sound. In 2010, Lloyd met producer and future bandmate Danny Saldivar II known as DSII. The two would continue to col...