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Austin ISD outlines school‑consolidation rubric, timeline and outreach; community calls for clearer cost estimates
Summary
District planners presented a two‑part consolidation tool (data rubric + contextual analysis) and an engagement roadmap for reviewing all 116 Austin ISD campuses; trustees and community members asked for clearer, line‑item savings estimates and predictable outreach during summer months.
Austin ISD staff on June 12 outlined a two‑part tool for evaluating consolidations — a quantitative data rubric to highlight facility inefficiencies and a follow‑up contextual analysis to study the lived experience of each campus — and a public engagement timeline spanning data work this summer and proposed decisions later this year.
Chief operating officer Christine Steenport and Director of Planning Dr. Rachel French briefed the board on a rubric that aggregates measures such as building utilization, facility condition, educational suitability, staffing and cost per student. The rubric also proposes an SRI (support and resource index) multiplier to reduce a…
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