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East Austin residents urge AISD to finish Oak Springs, preserve Blackshear and honor Yellowjackets agreements
Summary
Dozens of East Austin residents told the Austin ISD Board during an information session that bond funds should finish the Oak Springs campus, Blackshear should be repurposed for early childhood rather than closed, and the district must honor use agreements for historic Yellowjackets Stadium. Callers also pressed the district to standardize an ‘atypical’ GPA calculation and to provide clearer supports for TAP/TIP campuses.
At an information session on Feb. 12, dozens of community members urged the Austin Independent School District to complete a promised new campus at Oak Springs, keep Blackshear as a functioning community school or repurpose it for early childhood programming, and preserve the historical management terms for the LC Anderson Yellowjackets Stadium.
Barbara Spears Corbett, president of the original LC Anderson Alumni Association, said the stadium "is a district facility governed by established policies," and accused administration of treating it differently from…
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