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Choose to Succeed is an organization dedicated to expanding the opportunities for students in San Antonio to attend high quality charter schools. Since 2012, they have made grants and served as an advisor and ally to help successful charter schools to grow and to...
When a family is choosing a new home, moving to a new city, or even just looking to change schools after a negative experience, they have ample tools at hand. Great Schools, Niche, and state accountability ratings can tell a family looking for a “good school” where to...
David’s Legacy Foundation is leading the effort to prevent cyberbullying through education, legal action, and legislation. During this school year, cyberbullying is a greater danger than ever: many students are still participating in distance learning, and children...
After this summer’s racial reckoning, it should surprise exactly no one that special education services are among the things affected by systemic racism and implicit bias. An open records request of Texas public schools 2019–2020 special education services...
In a school year like no other, classes are back in session and campuses are starting to reopen. The San Antonio Charter Moms team has gone from thinking through contingency plans to researching COVID resources and school calendars. Now we are looking at how charter...
On August 12, Boerne ISD was the first public school district in the San Antonio area to welcome students on campus for face-to-face classes. Now that the district is offering its fourth week of in-person instruction, we can see how their back to school plan for...
Mindfulness is one of those words that is used in many situations in our culture. It continues to grow in popularity and people practice it in the workplace, home, places of worship, and community centers. You can easily find mindfulness workshops or retreats in your...
Over the summer, our team thought through contingency plans and researched COVID resources and school calendars to get a sense of what the 2020–2021 school year would be like. Now that school is back in session and campuses are starting to reopen, we are looking at...
Families on the Southside of San Antonio, a historically under-resourced area, may soon have the opportunity to choose to enroll their children in Royal Public Schools, a proposed K–12 charter school network. The school model, dubbed STREAMS-360, proposes to lift the...
In 2018, I delved into my first special education story. With no understanding of the learning curve ahead of me, I sat down in a room with a group of parents at IDEA Mays, and listened to them tell me their experience with special education at the school. This is how...
If you are taking care of young children at home during the pandemic, what is the most important thing you can do to keep their education on track? Mary Field, Head of Academics at the International School of San Antonio, recommends that you use this time to teach...
Like most things, launching Families Empowered wasn’t on the list of my “life goals,” and running a not-for-profit organization wasn’t something I dreamed of doing when I graduated college. It was just a response to a real problem. My school journey began 11 years...