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UPDATED. The BASIS San Antonio Boosters now have an executive board: President: Richard Gross VP: Lourdes Campos 2nd VP: Chris Conlan (formerly Lloyd Wiltz) Treasurer: Juan Carlos Rodriguez (formerly Tom Immenschuh) Secretary: Rachel Allred Want to stay up to date on...
KIPP: San Antonio has announced its First Friday Breakfast schedule for 2013-14. On the first friday of every month, from 7:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., KIPP: San Antonio welcomes the community with free breakfast tacos and coffee, presentations from KIPP: San Antonio...
East Central ISD trustee Randall Gearhart recently resigned, for personal reasons. "Third East Central trustee resigns in three years", Francisco Vara-Orta, San Antonio Express-News (Mysa.com). The board will meet again soon to choose a replacement. The last election...
My primary mission is to help San Antonio parents find quality schools for their children. But sometimes I touch on another hot topic in education, such as standardized testing (earlier post) or the textbook wars (earlier post). The latest battleground in the culture...
Last week, instead of heading straight for the H-E-B Science Treehouse, I took my kids through the South Texas Heritage Center at the Witte Museum. (Here's my earlier post about the grand opening last year.) I learned something new: José Francisco Ruiz, in addition to...
Is your household, like mine, so football-obsessed that even the early-preseason Hall of Fame Game (August 4, 2013, in case you're keeping track) is noted on the calendar? San Antonio has traditionally been a Dallas Cowboys market, but the Houston Texans have been so...
Back in February, when I visited an information session for Montessori For All, I was impressed by their unique model: Montessori education at a free, public charter school. (Read more in this earlier post.) Both Austin and San Antonio have thriving communities of...
Back in May, with the help of unflappable Express-News writer Francisco Vara-Orta, we observed the dysfunction and factionalism on the board of South San Antonio ISD. (Read more in this earlier post.) The question then: When would the South San school board fire...
Last weekend, my family and I traveled to California for a memorial service for my grandfather, who died in April at age 91. He lived a large, full life, and I try to learn from his example. We remembered his gifts of service. In addition to running a busy medical...
Last month, Trinity University Press released Animal Amigos! and Black & Blanco, the final installments of the five-book ArteKids series. These colorful, bilingual board books feature art from the San Antonio Museum of Art. I am looking forward to sharing the new...
The other day I was flipping through a glossy magazine that came in the mail, and—surprise!—found a references to BASIS San Antonio: The Decherds have four daughters: Cally, 16, a junior this fall at AHHS, who is active in Destination Imagination and loves to sing;...
Over the weekend, I drove past Hawthorne Academy, an in-district charter at San Antonio ISD, and snapped a picture of the construction—part of the Bond 2010 program. Here is an earlier post with a pre-construction photo of Hawthorne. Hawthorne is one of 16 campuses in...