Austin Independent School District allocated federal NCLB Title I, Part A funds to 68 school-wide campuses (52 elementary, 11 middle, and 5 high schools) where the percentages of low-income children ranged from 45% to 99%. Other funds were allocated to provide services district wide to students, staff, and families. This report summarizes Title I…

This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's (AISD's) 2005-2006 school year activities and student performance results in reading and math, with a focus on those students who received academic interventions in these subject areas.

This report summarizes Austin Independent School District services and activities funded in part by the federal NCLB Title I Part A grant for the 2006-2007 school year.

Austin Partners in Education, a nonprofit organization, helps the community and AISD classrooms work together to ensure academic excellence and personal success for students. Academic outcomes, student engagement, and other variables for school year 2008-2009 were examined in this report.

This report summarizes AISD student TAKS results among former English language learner students in spring 2006. This is part 1 of a 2-report series. [For part 2, see ED619483.]

This report summarizes Austin ISD's bilingual and English as a second language (ESL) program for students during the 2006-2007 school year. The school district served 13,162 students in a bilingual program, 5,280 students in an ESL program, and 822 students whose parents refused bilingual or ESL programming. Most (77%) students served were in…

The purpose of this report was to identify former English language learner (ELL) students and to know how they as a group had performed on 2006 TAKS. This is part 2 of a 2-report series. [For part 1, see ED619482.]

This report summarizes AISD's 2007-2008 evaluation of year one implementation of the First Things First initiative at 3 high schools.

Twenty-nine percent of students enrolled in Austin Independent School District were English language learners in 2009-2010. The majority of them (62%) continued to make progress in English proficiency, and their state academic test (TAKS) performance continued to improve over the years.

This report summarizes evaluation results from AISD's Model Reading Intervention Program (MRIP) at grade 4 during the 2001-2002 school year.

Of the 1,828 grade 6 students who received accelerated instruction outside of the regular classroom, 27% participated in both reading and math interventions. Of the 1,872 grade 7 students who participated in accelerated instruction outside of the classroom, 26% participated in both reading and math interventions. The overall state test results for…

Recent Title I regulations have allowed local school districts to use Title I funds to establish schoolwide projects to upgrade the educational program for the entire school, not just for targeted students. Austin, Texas, used Title I and local funds to establish two schoolwide projects where pullout programs were ended and the pupil/teacher ratio…

This report summarizes results of AISD's Technology Applications Readiness Grants for Empowering Texas (TARGET) program activities for the 2003-2004 school year.

Austin Independent School District provided full-day prekindergarten to 5,196 4-year-olds in 2008-2009 at 66 schools. Seventy percent or more of students made measureable gains on a test of receptive vocabulary, and average gains showed growth about two times greater than that expected for 4-year-olds after a 7-month period.

This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's prekindergarten program for the 2007-2008 school year.