The candidates are getting their messages out
The field is set for Austin ISD’s board of trustees election in November. Lynn Boswell and Kevin Foster drew no challengers for their reelection bids, so we don’t need to talk about them. However, Ofelia Maldonado Zapata and Noelita Lugo , the board’s two Hispanic members, have decided not to run again. Eight candidates are vying to replace them.
“The number of foster kids who graduate from high school is dismal; the percentage of foster kids who go to college even lower,” Quintana said. “But I had amazing teachers and staff and schoolmates at the Ann Richards School, and I feel very lucky to have had that. But it should not be unique to that school. We should have all of those resources – the wraparound resources, the college resources, the social services resources – available in every District 2 school.
Lindsey Stringer is a graduate of Austin’s public schools and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She’s also an AISD parent and a member of the PTA who has been affiliated with Teach for America, a nonprofit thatas an arm of the charter school movement.
Austin ISD Fernando Lucas De Urioste Laressa Quintana Lindsey Stringer Noelita Lugo Ofelia Maldonado Zapata Sarah Ivory
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