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A year after Texas lawmakers prohibited schools from suspending most young students, some Central Texas districts are still using the practice, including one that reported a surprisingly high 571 suspensions in the 2017-18 school year.
The girls attending the Houston ISD STEM magnet school, where a poster in the hallway proclaims "Sushi rolls, not gender roles," are hitting upon a stubborn problem in STEM, short for science, technology, engineering and math.
Texas requires schools to have emergency plans and conduct safety drills. But a lot of decisions about safety are left to school districts and charter schools.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — School shootings, online bullying and COVID-19 — they’re all topics some Central Texas counselors are discussing on a regular basis.
“I want them to feel seen, I want them to feel heard,” said Bobbi Sanchez, a high school counselor with Round Rock ISD. “We try to make them feel better.”
The Greater Houston Partnership is collaborating with a national mentorship organization to launch a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to address the equity and skills gap in the region, increase readiness of college graduates and strengthen the local economy.
One resource students can use is the University’s Center for Community Engagement. Their goal is to connect the community with resources, advancing service-learning and volunteerism in the UT community.
Austin colleges and universities are using a new grant from the Central Texas Food Bank to help tackle food insecurity on campus. The Central Texas Food Bank awarded about $50,000 in food grants to four colleges in Central Texas through the College Food Access Grant to support institutions of higher education and their efforts to build “campus food systems that allow all students to participate and thrive.”
As the cost of living in Austin continues to rise, Austin City Council is looking at ways to increase housing in unaffordable neighborhoods. That includes affordable housing for students as they say it's getting harder and harder to afford the cost of the rent.
The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio and the Karnes City Independent School District (ISD) have been awarded grants totaling more than $2.7 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program to train school counselors, social workers, psychologists, or other mental health professionals qualified to provide school-based mental health services.