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Austin ISD risks losing $5 million in state funding if more students don’t attend final weeks of school in person
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With just seven weeks left in a school year which has been disrupted by the pandemic, Austin Independent School District Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde sent a strangely timed email to parents on Tuesday with the subject “Welcoming Students Back to School.”
“It s hard to believe we ve only a few weeks left in the school year, and they are as important as the first week,” the superintendent wrote. “We’ve missed having your children in our schools.”
As coronavirus conditions worsen, the Austin school board voted Wednesday to give the superintendent the authority to shutter schools for in-person learning after the winter break.
The vote sets the stage for a return to 100% remote learning when schools re-start in early January, and comes as Austin health officials, wary of a growing surge in coronavirus cases ahead of Christmas and New Year’s Day, recommended that the community be placed under the tightest pandemic restrictions so far this year.
Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde has said the district, which enrolled roughly 80,000 students in the 2019-20 school year, could close schoolhouse doors and offer solely online instruction if Austin health officials determine further measures are needed to stymie the spread of the disease