Charter schools, mostly in high-poverty areas, are among the public schools that didn’t recover from the pandemic’s disruption and slipped in the state accountability ratings.
Priced out of Southtown, SAY Sí goes west click to enlarge Stephanie Stokes / SA Heron / @estefotografa “What happened in Southtown and the Blue Star area is that it’s become gentrified,” said Jon Hinojosa, SAY Sí’s executive director, on the nonprofit’s move to the West Side. In late 2019, SAY Sí, the youth arts education nonprofit that’s been operating in San Antonio since 1994, announced that it would leave its longtime home, a renovated 26,000-square-foot commercial building at 1518 S. Alamo St., across Probandt from its original site in the Blue Star Arts Complex. “We really thought that was going to be our home forever,” says Jon Hinojosa, SAY Sí’s long-time executive director. As demand for its programs grew over the years, Hinojosa says,