Austin ISD presents draft turnaround plans for multiple campuses, schedules public hearing Nov. 20

District leaders on Oct. 30 outlined draft Turnaround Plans (TAPs) for several Austin Independent School District campuses and scheduled a public hearing and board vote for Nov. 20, with a Nov. 21 submission deadline to the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

Chief of staff Lakisha Drinks told trustees the district is still drafting TAPs and is seeking community feedback. ‘‘The restart strategy typically requires a change in campus staff,’’ Drinks said, describing restart campuses as generally having modernized facilities and staffing needs that make reassignment difficult. She identified Linder and Wooldridge as campuses on trajectories that could support restart with added resources and Paredes Middle School as showing accelerated domain growth that would make it a candidate for similar supports.

The district described Pecan Springs as an outlier requiring ‘‘maximum supports’’ because it had not demonstrated…