Thousands of families in special-education limbo Cayla Bamberger, Sarah Butrymowicz, Jackie Mader, Caroline Preston AUSTIN Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for help. A good student with dreams of working in neuroscience, Eli, a 17-year-old junior who uses the pronouns they and them, did very well in middle school and was accepted to a competitive magnet high school. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines. They would write down the wrong number when solving a math problem, even knowing the right answer, or read the same page of a book several times to pick up basic details.
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Candidates for two seats on the Austin ISD school board moved on to a runoff.
Lynn Boswell and Noelita Lugo will be the newest members of the Austin Independent School District’s Board of Trustees.
Boswell will represent District 5, which covers parts of Central and West Austin, and Lugo will be the newest at-large trustee.
Boswell is the former president of the Austin PTA and an AISD parent. Lugo is also a parent to kids in the district and helped start Save Austin Schools, a group that fought against school closures in 2019.
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People wait in line to vote in South Austin on Oct. 13. A few candidates in local races in the general election moved on to a runoff.
It’s Election Day in Travis and Williamson counties, which means it’s the last day residents have to vote in the December runoffs. Not sure if there’s something on your ballot or where to go to vote during the pandemic? Here’s everything you need to know.
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You can go here to verify your registration anywhere in the state. The deadline to register to vote in the December runoffs has passed.
The two races for the Austin City Council that were not determined in November will be settled in Tuesday s runoff elections – and the results will be the latest testament to how the city s progressive movement on public safety and homelessness is playing with voters.
To this point, no council member has lost an election since the council approved cuts to the police department s budget this summer and repealed the city s public camping ban last summer. Leslie Pool and Greg Casar cruised to reelection in November, and Delia Garza will be the next Travis County attorney after winning the Democratic primary and running unopposed in the general election.