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July 22, 2005 News Column
AISD Numbers
It's all about the money
"...Education Austin wants teachers to get a pay raise. A 3% cost-of-living raise..."
July 15, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor
Lege Wrap-Up
Education
"...tax cuts than trying to scrounge up money to pay for public education. Something's gotta give. The House and..."
June 3, 2005 News Feature
Shrinking Schools
While the suburbs sprawl, central city schools count their children – and their blessings
"...thing) aren't the greatest, but it's a place where teachers value creativity, where parents turn out in droves for..."
May 20, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
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Our readers talk back.
"...real truth is that Central Texans already would be paying a toll on South MoPac to cross over William..."
May 6, 2005 Column
High Tech Schools: The Future, or the Latest Fad?
Will new technology funding go to build skills or just
buy stuff?
"...different hot spots on the book's pages. Meanwhile, their teachers use the LeapTrack assessment system to identify individual weaknesses..."
Dec. 31, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...huge embarrassment that the city and chamber will probably pay handsomely to avoid. Though Freescale's IPO raised less money..."
July 23, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Charter School Earns an F
The Texas Academy of Excellence fails accounting (and ethics)
"...not quite "no" idea. The school's administrators were clearly paying rent on their facilities (until they stopped doing so..."
July 2, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Naked City
The Eastside charter school begins its bankruptcy proceedings
"...that would allow the Texas Academy of Excellence to pay its teachers their February wages as part of the..."
March 5, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...and has allowed Glasgow to continue to receive his pay. Mann said that Knee has asked the Texas attorney..."
Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Leave No Child Behind
In a an excerpt from their new book, Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose expose Bush's No Child Left Behind policy as an educational Enron.
"...gave a big chunk of the surplus back to taxpayers. Then he ran for president saying, "I passed the..."
Oct. 3, 2003 News Feature by Louis Dubose
Black and White and Rick All Over
The ABCs of 'The School of Rock'
"...& roller who scams a job as a substitute teacher in a fifth-grade class at an exclusive private school..."
Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Naked City
Beyond City Limits
"...Texas Freedom Network gathered a group of citizens, scientists, teachers, and clergy at the Texas Education Agency to ask..."
Aug. 29, 2003 News Feature
Fuzzy Budget Math at AISD
The latest proposed Austin ISD budget has new millions in found money
"...announced his revised 2003-2004 budget proposal, which would increase teacher and staff pay, reduce 10th- and 11th-grade class size,..."
June 27, 2003 News Feature by Michael King
Chartered Well ... and Badly
The experience of charter schools is mixed, at best
"...hardest working students in Austin." Ken Loyd, an African-American teacher with long, tidy dreadlocks, is trying to explain how..."
April 4, 2003 News Feature
Caesar's Caesar
Karl Rove had a brief but interesting stint as a UT politics instructor.
"...offered an example: "The purpose of saying you gave teachers a record pay increase is to reassure suburban voters..."
Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax
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Our readers talk back.
"...-- and heavily subsidizing with our own tax and ratepayer funds -- excessive, suburban sprawl development that no rational..."
July 26, 2002 Column
Naked City
"...May 9 that Travis County does not have to pay a $5,500 judgment awarded to Austin contractors Pelzel &..."
May 17, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
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Our readers talk back.
"...It's a great idea to have a teacher on the board, but not at the expense of..."
May 3, 2002 Column
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Our readers talk back.
"...a new computer information system and the first two payrolls, several years ago, had errors. But, we immediately addressed..."
March 22, 2002 Column
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Our readers talk back.
"...Ms. Baumgarten do? Did you know that you are paying an editor for a section that does not exist?..."
March 8, 2002 Column
The Banker vs. the Prosecutor
As the primary campaign winds to an abrupt close, what do we know about Sanchez and Morales?
"...the state might have to consider new taxes to pay for education (ruling out only an income tax), Sanchez..."
March 8, 2002 News Feature by Michael King
Playing the Bad Guy
With actor David Stahl currently appearing as the wicked Richard III and actor Katherine Catmull having recently played the evil Goneril in King Lear, the challenge of playing villains seemed a ripe topic to launch a series of artist-to-artist conversations on craft.
"...a real childlike quality. So does he have to pay in the end in any serious way?..."
Aug. 17, 2001 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull
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Readers sound off on a variety of touchy subjects: politicos, abandoned kittens, even the brachiation of apes.
"...faculty members at A&M International is also a Master Teacher of Spanish in a local high school. In the..."
June 15, 2001 Column
Soda Jerks
The AISD Vending Machine Scandal and the World of Snacks and Sodas
"...subpoenaed bank records and found possible evidence of vendors paying improper gratuities to other school officials. Because of the..."
April 27, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
"Still Separate and Still Unequal"
"...We need smaller classes and reduced administrative burden on teachers. We need resources for high quality education for all..."
Jan. 12, 2001 News Feature
Capitol Chronicle
As Gov. Bush moves to D.C. in a wave of acclamation, the Legislature prepares to meet over redistricting and new legislation.
"...are on record as supporting significant increases in officer pay. As with most such social indicators, Texas is setting..."
Dec. 22, 2000 News Column by Michael King
Songs of Innocence and Experience
From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.
"...the drums in the middle school band, where his teacher made a lasting impression on the young Smith...."
Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess
Chief Priest of the Shrine
The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.
"...-- that such a mass of humanity would come pay their final respects? Who was this larger-than-life character famous..."
July 14, 2000 Music Feature by David Lynch
Getting the Joke
Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.
"...misconception about comedy in general. Everybody knows what a teacher does, a lawyer does, a banker does. When you..."
