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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...
![[Hall Monitor] The McNeels Choose a School–Part One](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/McNeels-Choose-School-1.jpg)
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...
![[Hall Monitor] Great Idea: Where to Find a Substitute Teacher in Rural Nebraska](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/hall-monitor-substitute-teacher-rural-nebraska.jpg)
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...
![[Hall Monitor] Support and Demand: CPPP and TNTP Explore What It Means to Be Underserved](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hall_Monitor_Support_Demand_CPPP_TNTP_Underserved.jpg)
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...
![[Hall Monitor] Governor Abbott’s School Finance Fix](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Hall_Monitor_Governor_Abbott_School_Finance_Fix.png)
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...
![[Hall Monitor] Stoking Voter Culture Is a Duty and a Privilege at Jefferson High School](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pedro_Escamilla_Jefferson_High_School.jpg)
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...
![[Barry Brake] A Dad Explains to the Texas State Board of Education Why U.S. History Textbooks Should Cite Moses as Inspiration for Representative Democracy](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Barry_Brake_Texas_State_Board_Education.jpg)
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...
![[Hall Monitor] Fifth Grade Student Body President Ramps Up Empathy, Civic Engagement](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Ryan_Lopez_Price_Elementary_Gloria_Galvan.jpg)
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...
![[Hall Monitor] School Building to Be Renamed to Honor the Legacy of Bill Davis](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bill_Davis_legacy_screenshot1.png)
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...
![[Hall Monitor] Texas Commission on Public School Finance: All That for Nothing?](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/William_B_Travis_State_Office_Building_Austin_Texas_4.jpg)
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...
![[Texas Public Radio] Worth Repeating: Inga Wanted More For Her Son](https://sachartermoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Inga_Cotton_Texas_Public_Radio_Worth_Repeating.jpg)
My son's autism diagnosis has been one of the defining experiences of my life. On October 2, 2018, I shared that story at the "Suckerpunch" episode of Worth Repeating, a recurring storytelling event organized by Texas Public Radio at Brick at Blue Star. I've been...