Web based service designed to help students and their parents make decisions about colleges and careers.
What is Naviance?
100
Government subsidized housing.
What is Section 8 Housing?
100
The 3 main school districts we partner with.
What are Austin, Manor, and Del Valle?
100
The Breakthrough program where students can do homework and receive support.
What is after-school hours (ASH)?
200
Standard assessment of academic achievement administered at various grade levels covering reading, writing, math, science, social studies. Performance at grade 11 is a prerequisite for graduation.
What is the STAAR?
200
The most challenging classes available to students.
What is Advanced Placement?
200
The Texas law that creates new rules for graduation and student testing requiring students to choose courses that focus in specialized areas.
What is House Bill 5 (HB5)?
200
Public transportation system in Austin.
What is Capital Metro?
200
Charter school focused on the motto "Knowledge is Power".
What is KIPP?
300
The goal of this program is to provide support for "students in the middle" so they can be successful in honors and advanced placement courses.
What is AVID?
300
State of Texas financial aid program that any resident of Texas can apply for.
What is the TASFA?
300
Program that provides financial and medical assistance to needy dependent children and the parents or relatives with whom they are living.
What is the TANF?
300
The city's motto?
What is KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD?
300
BT process where we continue to grow the number of students in the program.
What is student admissions?
400
AISD automated system used to view students' assignments, grades, and attendance.
What is the Parent Cloud?
400
ACC program in which high school juniors and seniors can start earning college credit before graduating.
What is the Early College Start Program?
400
Federal law that protects the privacy of students records.
What is the Family Education & Rights Privacy Act (FERPA)?
400
County we are currently living in.
What is Travis County?
400
Designation for students who meet state-defined criteria for increased likelihood of dropping out of school.
What is "At Risk."
500
The AISD policy that a student may transfer from a school where his or her ethnic group is over 50% of the school's population to a school where that ethnic group is under 50%.
What is Majority to Minority transfer?
500
The mission of this higher institution is to promote student success and improve communities through affordable access to higher education.
What is ACC?
500
State agency that administers state and federal education programs, monitors educational providers and provides guidance and technical assistance.
What is the Texas Education Agency (TEA)?
500
The number for the Breakthrough office.
What is 512-692-9444?
500
Program that started in 1997 as a partnership between UT College of Education & Natural Sciences and AISD to encourage students to pursue teacher certification in the fields of math and science.