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Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. Having an education reporter for a wife, Lewis McNeel rarely needs to comb through niche.com or greatschools.org to learn more about his local options....

Experience SAISD is an annual event for families to learn about schools in SAISD San Antonio. This school year's event, on December 1, 2018, showed how much progress the district is making in expanding the number and variety of school options available to families in...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. For the past six years, I've been there every time San Antonio ISD sneezed. I've done so from a safe distance, where the propulsion of mucus and saliva...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. While conducting research for my recent Edutopia story, "Modernizing the Search for Substitute Teachers," I came across a fantastic program in rural...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. When describing poverty, segregation, racial inequity, and all the other disparities in American life, the word "underserved" comes up a lot. I've had...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. Now that the election is over, we return back to our reality. Things at the state house remain functionally the same—tax-averse Republicans...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. Last year I wrote a story about high school voters. For several reasons, it never ran. However, given the battle for the polls at Texas State, and the...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share this guest post from Barry Brake on an issue of importance to public education. I'm sitting in a room in Austin. People are milling around talking to each other, readying for a big meeting. When I say "big," I mean this...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. Ryan Lopez is not the kind of politician who makes empty promises. He’s more interested in seeing real needs and building a coalition of partners to...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. The outcome of last Monday's vote to rename the technology building at Rhodes Middle School in honor of Bill Davis— the teacher killed in a car...

Families Empowered is hosting a School Connection Fair in San Antonio on Saturday, November 10, 2018 as a way to help parents and caregivers find the right schools for their children. The fair will be at the Norris Conference Center, 618 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, TX...

Note from SA Charter Moms: We are proud to share guest posts from hallmonitor covering San Antonio's public schools. Everything you thought you knew about school finance is about to change. And by "you" I mean most Texans, who know very little about school...