San Antonio ISD to bring more students to the classroom this month
Feb. 9, 2021
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Principal Rick Flores shows one of the outdated classrooms in SAISD’s Rhodes Middle School. Besides building renovations in the district’s main bond proposal, Proposition B would fund $90 million in technology upgrades, equipping every classroom with high-speed internet, audio systems, laptops or tablets and interactive smart boards.William Luther /Staff photographer
More students in the San Antonio Independent School District will be able to return to the classroom later this month.
The news comes following Monday night s COVID-19 update after officials announced that the positivity rate is now at 9.7 percent. The new positivity rate moves the risk level to yellow for the San Antonio community, which allows schools to operate at 50 percent student capacity.
UTSA study: San Antonio-area charters see more student movement from school to school
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Bianca Davila knew early on that her youngest child, Jordan Castillo, had special needs.
Jordan was not hitting his developmental milestones and was having behavioral issues that prompted their pediatrician to refer him to the Center for Healthcare Services.
There, Davila met families who recommended IDEA Public Schools, a fast-growing charter network that boasted a nearly 100 percent graduation rate. No problem that Jordan needed special education services. IDEA could help him, Davila was told.
She enrolled Jordan in IDEA Eastside for kindergarten. But for the next three years, she said, she had to fight all the way to the network’s highest levels to get Jordan tested for special needs. He received a diagnosis toward the end of second grade, she believes, only because she had emailed and called IDEA leaders at their headquarters.
Willie Hall didn’t realize how this season would end, and how hard it would be on him emotionally. After 23 years as the head coach of the Brackenridge Eagles, Hall didn’t realize how fast his final year would go. The end of his career seemed faster than the beginning, Hall said. When he was young, […]
San Antonio developer GrayStreet is selling most of proposed mixed-use site
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Renderings presented to the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone board show elements of Broadway East.Courtesy of GrayStreet PartnersShow MoreShow Less
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Maps and renderings presented to the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone show plans for Broadway East.Courtesy of GrayStreet PartnersShow MoreShow Less
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Maps and renderings presented to the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone show plans for Broadway East.Courtesy of GrayStreet PartnersShow MoreShow Less
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Local, state, and national officials are lying to Texas communities about COVID in schools. As part of their forced economic “reopening,” officials and administrators are scrapping safety plans, distorting statistics, intimidating teachers, holding funding hostage, and ignoring the science of COVID spread in order to send as many children back into school buildings as possible. The effect has been predictably devastating, especially to vulnerable working-class communities, as COVID cases continue to surge.
Where is the state’s reaction?
Texas is one of 49 states currently in what the CDC calls “unchecked community spread” and in the “highest risk.” The state is currently ranked 3rd in the country for most deaths and most cases. An average of 316 people are dying of COVID in the state every single day, and the number is still rising.