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After School Matters

Applications open for After School Matters spring programs

By AustinTalks | February 2, 2021

Slots are available for approximately 8,000 young people to participate in the after-school program that begins the week of March 8. The programs will be offered remotely, as they have been since last summer. Teens will earn a stipend between $90 and $250 depending on the length and level of expertise required for the program.

social emotional learning

Teens teach others with their podcast

By Suzanne McBride | May 4, 2020

Elijah Adams and Yafae Cotton, sophomores at Michele Clark Academic Prep Magnet High School, have been producing a weekly podcast since the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools across the state.

Community

Public invited to this weekend’s hands-on learning festival

By AustinTalks | May 17, 2019

Events will be held May 16-19 at Michele Clark High School, the West Side STEM Learning Center and La Follette Park.

Austin

Elected official calls for reinvention of West Side school

By La Shawn Ford | March 8, 2017

State Rep. La Shawn Ford says in the interest of justice, fairness and equity, Frederick Douglass Academy High School can and should be transformed.

Opinion
John W. Fountain III.

Leave the guilt and shame in last year

By John W. Fountain III | January 2, 2012

You have control over your life and what you want it to be, writes commentator John W. Fountain III.

appropriate

Some students want the right to wear their own clothes to school

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

Journalist Eddonishia Jones hopes schools officials will consider letting students ditch their uniform on some days.

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