ECISD School Notebook Highlights Weekly Events
ECISD Family Education Center offers tutorials for grades seven through twelve on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Austin Elementary hosts growth and development videos for fifth and sixth grades, plus an immunization clinic Friday. Several elementary schools list daily activities, field days, talent shows, and PTA events, with major dates spanning May through Friday.
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ECISD
Austin
Blackshear Elementary
PTA
JSN
St. John’s
Star Assembly
Blanton Elementary
LRC
Pete
Sherwood Park
Burnet
Brownie
CIT
Daisy Girl Scout
Dowling Elementary
Fly Elementary
Scholastic Book Fair
March of Dimes
Gattiland
Gale Pond-Alano
Goliad
Goldsmith
Penk
Pia Moing
Planetarium
Angels Stadium
UIL moves into own building after budget overrun
The University Interscholastic League will occupy a new three story brick building in East Austin near Disch Falk Field. Initial costs rose about 1.25 million above the 1993 budget, driven by inflation duct adjustments water pressure and code updates with UT land use changes tied to a 1994 Title IX influenced stadium decision.
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Austin
Texas’ Public
UIL
East
University of Texas’ Disch-Falk Field
University of Texas
Disch-Falk Field
Ed Sharpe
University
University Interscholastic League
Granny in the Hood Speaker Remembers Prison Life
Fran Johnson known as Granny in the Hood recalls teaching male inmates across three state prisons and now educating UT Permian Basin students. She tells Bonham Junior High ninth graders how literacy and personal choices shape life, sharing inmate stories to deter risky behavior.
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Fran Johnson
Granny In the Hood
Johnson
Bonham Junior High School
Department of Education
University of Texas
Permian Basin
Seattle students pick from ten middle schools in market based plan
Ramon Rinonos, 11, wins admission to his first choice among Seattle Public Schools free enrollment. The district replaces near neighbor assignment with a citywide open system where funding follows enrollment, pushing schools to market themselves with specialties to attract students. If enrollment drops, a school may merge with another.
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Seattle
Ramon Rinonos
Ramon
Kathy Ainond
Joseph Olchefske
Chicago
Olchefske
Mother Cheetah's Lost Cubs Tale
In southern Africa a lazy hunter sacrifices patience and warning to steal three cubs from Mother Cheetah. As night falls, the hunter’s greed ends in loss as the mother discovers her cubs are gone and wails in the grass. The tale contrasts cunning predators with a negligent caregiver.
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Africa
Mother Cheetah
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League
The
University of the Permian Basin
Bonham
Billy Grimes
Mark Sterkel
Cheetah
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