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Great Hearts Monte Vista will hold its open-enrollment lottery at 6:30 p.m. January 21, 2014 in the Barshop Auditorium at Temple Beth-El, 211 Belknap Pl., San Antonio, Texas 78212 (map). A recent email from Peter Bezanson, Superintendent of Great Hearts Texas,...
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Back in October, the San Antonio Symphony invited my family and one of my readers' families to attend a Halloween Family Concert, as discussed in this earlier post. This month, the Symphony is teaming up with the San Antonio...
Earlier this month, I went to a First Friday Breakfast at KIPP Un Mundo Academy; read more details about the event in this earlier post. The highlight of the visit was getting a campus tour from two first-grade...
The San Antonio Botanical Garden is decorated for the season with the Holidays in Bloom exhibit. This year's decorations use more natural materials, like burlap and pine cones. There's a...
Did you get a chance to see the San Antonio Symphony/Ballet San Antonio production of The Nutcracker? (The Symphony gave me a set of tickets for my family, and a set to give away; read more in this earlier post.) My kids, F.T. (age 6) and little sister G.N., loved it....
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Inflatable Wonderland, a kid favorite at Rolling Oaks Mall, has opened a second location at Wonderland of the Americas Mall, 4522 Fredericksburg Rd., San...
San Antonio families are flocking to enroll at the first Great Hearts campus in Texas. Meanwhile, families in North Texas will have to wait another year or more as a result of the State Board of Education's veto of Education Commissioner Michael Williams'...
Are you coming? KIPP: San Antonio is hosting a First Friday Breakfast at KIPP Un Mundo Academy, 103 Tuleta Dr., San Antonio, Texas 78212 (map) from 7:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on December 6, 2013. RSVP to Victoria de Diggs at (210) 880-8080 or vdediggs@kippsa.org. A KIPP...
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. The San Antonio Symphony and Ballet San Antonio are teaming up again this year to present a holiday classic: The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Performances began Thanksgiving weekend and continue next weekend, December...
The weekend before Thanksgiving, a group of BASIS San Antonio students, faculty, staff, and families volunteered to sort food at the San Antonio Food Bank. BASIS San Antonio Head of School Tiffany O'Neill says, "It's really important that our kids volunteer in the San...
Last week, my blogger friends and I got a sneak peek at From Me To You, a seasonal retail store operated by Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas. My son, F.T., got a chance to learn about...
Good news! San Antonio is getting two new charter schools, Carpe Diem San Antonio and Redbud Montessori For All. In September, the State Board of Education interviewed the Generation 18 charter applicants, as discussed in this earlier post. Education Commissioner...