Leander ISD Releases Advice on Swine Flu

The Leander Independent School District released a directive on how to identify and respond to swine flu. Their advice can be read here (PDF).

Candidate forums planned

From Impact News, April 15, 2009...

Candidates for the Leander City Council will introduce themselves and answer audience-generated questions from 7-9 p.m. April 22 at the Leo Center, 300 S. West Drive, Leander.

Leander Independent School District Board of Trustees candidates will participate in a forum from 6:30-8 p.m. April 27 in the Cedar Park Middle School cafeteria, 2100 Sun Chase Blvd., Cedar Park. The forum is sponsored by the LISD Council of PTAs.

An LISD Board of Trustees forum for place 1 and place 2 candidates will begin at 7 p.m. May 9 at Laura Welch Bush Elementary, 12600 Country Trails, Austin. This forum is sponsored by the Laura Welch Bush Elementary PTA.

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LISD could get $5.4 million from stimulus package

From Hill Country News, January 29, 2009...

The $835 billion stimulus package making its way through Congress could turn out to be a major windfall for Leander ISD. The district could receive more than $5 million over a two-year period, according to an Austin-based research firm.

Strategic Partnerships, Inc., estimates that LISD will get $5,428,700 if the stimulus bill goes through as expected. School districts throughout Williamson County could receive a total of $27,292,500 in funding.

Though the funds aren't guaranteed at this point, “the formula is not likely to change significantly since the bill is on such a fast track,” said Strategic Partnerships President and CEO Mary Scott Nabers.

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LISD plans early release Oct. 8

From Community Impact, October 1, 2008...

Leander Independent School District elementary and secondary students will be released early Oct. 8 for a faculty and staff training session.

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LISD classes to release early on Wednesday

From Hill Country News, September 15, 2008...

Leander ISD elementary and secondary students will be released early on Wednesday, September 17 so that campus teachers and staff may devote the afternoon to training. LISD elementary campuses will let out at noon on September 17. High school students will be released for the day at 1:00 p.m., and middle schools will end their day at 1:20 p.m.

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Leander ISD going green

From Impact News, September 9, 2008...

For many years, Leander Independent School District has supported nonprofit organizations and provided information to parents regarding youth leagues, scouts and other opportunities for students by sending home fliers in take-home folders.

This year, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, LISD has discontinued this practice and will post the fliers in the LISD website (http://www.leanderisd.org/).

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Attendance zone committee forming

From Impact News, September 9, 2008...

Leander ISD is currently forming a parent/citizen advisory committee to assist in developing recommendations to the board of trustees for high school and middle school attendance boundaries for the 2009-2010 and subsequent school years.

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LISD to scrap and replace structure at Bible

From Hill Country News, August 13, 2008...

The Leander ISD Board of Trustees voted on Thursday, Aug. 7, to dismantle the current structure at A.C. Bible Jr. Memorial Stadium, rather than have it repainted. The new structure is to have 10,000 seats. The decision followed the announcement at the July 17 meeting that lead primer was discovered.

What remains to be decided is how large the voter-approved regional stadium near Vista Ridge High School will be - whether it will have 10,000 seats or fewer. The board has until January to make that decision.

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LISD rankings improve

From Hill Country News, August 6, 2008...

The Texas Education Agency posted its 2008 accountability ratings report last week, giving Leander ISD many reasons to cheer, as well as a few concerns.

The standard was made more rigorous this year to align with the dropout definition of the federal No Child Left Behind law and the National Center for Education Statistics. The new definition considers any student who does not graduate within four years, receive a GED, or remain in school, to be a "non-completer."

Even though most of its performance measures were ranked as recognized, LISD risked being classified as academically unacceptable over the dropout rate.

However, the TEA extended its "School Leaver Provision" for 2008. The provision states that a campus or district can’t be rated lower because of the completion rate alone.

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LISD Opens Four New Schools This Fall

From Hill Country News, August 5, 2008...

The 2008-09 school year will be marked by a couple of important milestones. First, LISD will open four new campuses, the most the district has ever opened at once. Second, the district will open the first elementary campuses based its new design - based on “neighborhoods,” rather than the traditional hallways-and-square-classrooms design.

“The workmen are on the job seven days a week right now,” said LISD spokesman Dick Ellis.

Campuses opening for the first time on Aug. 25 will be Rouse High School (next to Wiley Middle School in Leander), Westside Elementary (off Lime Creek Road in Cedar Park), Parkside Elementary (in the Parkside at Mayfield Ranch subdivision) and Grandview Hills Elementary (in the Grandview Hills neighborhood).

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