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Acacia Coronado

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Education reporter at @_AustinCurrent • News tip? acacia@austincurrent.org • Formerly AP, Texas Tribune, WSJ, UT COE etc • Product of @utjschool 🤘🏼
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‘Rock and a hard place’: Burnet parents weigh petition to close schools amid takeover threat

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By Acacia Coronado
| The Austin Current
Austin ISD Superintendent Matias Segura has said the district will not help parents organize petitions asking the state to close two failing middle schools. But the district leader has delivered a pointed message at meetings with Webb families last week and Burnet families on Monday evening: The petition is their last opportunity to influence what happens to their schools.
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Austin ISD’s budget strains as enrollment dips, transportation spending increases

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By Acacia Coronado
| The Austin Current
The Austin school district is over 2,000 students short of its projected enrollment this school year, complicating an already-strained budget which is partially reliant on the quantity of students and their attendance for funding. Over 6,400 students enrolled at the end of last school year did not return to Austin ISD for the 2026-27 school year, not including those that graduated, district leaders said Thursday. However, the district gained 8,500 new students, including Pre-K and Kindergarten.
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Austin parents should have say in future of failing schools, state takeover, superintendent says

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By Acacia Coronado
| The Austin Current
Parents at two failing Austin middle schools should have a say in whether the campuses close, a last-ditch effort to prevent a state takeover of the entire school district, Superintendent Matias Segura said Thursday. The Texas Education Agency is poised to add the Austin Independent School District to its growing lists of takeovers after five years of poor test scores at Burnet and Webb middle schools.
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