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In its 7th year, the ENCORE (Engaging Our Community For College Readiness) Conference brings parents and students together to begin focusing on college while still in middle school. Keynote speaker, a variety of workshops, separate student track for elementary and middle school, childcare for ages 2-5, Thanksgiving lunch, college and career resource fair, food pantry [...]
On Monday, March 4, 2019, Lily Eskelsen García, President of the National EducationAssociation, will serve as keynote speaker for Austin Voices' annual "Stand Up for Schools" luncheon and fundraiser at Dell Children's Medical Center/Signe Auditorium. Lily is a passionate advocate for public education, and will speak to two important priorities for Texas: adequate funding for [...]
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This year, Austin Voices brought over 12,500 people and hundreds of partners together for community celebrations and resources fairs at 11 Austin ISD and El Paso ISD campuses. These gatherings strengthen bonds between campus and community, while providing important resources for families. Austin Voices goal over the past decade has been to provide a model [...]
AVEY held its annual "Stand Up for Schools" celebration at the Dell Children's Medical Center on Feb. 8, 2016. The event, which also raised over $20,000 for the work of Austin Voices, honored students, parents and community partners who have modeled support for public education in 2015-16. The keynote speaker was Jane Quinn, Director of [...]
AVEY’s two fall festivals, HopeFest at Reagan HS and Harvest Fest at Eastside Memorial HS, drew over 5,000 people and almost 200 exhibitors. HopeFest, in its 10th year, drew 4,000 for a day of live music, food, fun, and family resources. The “Explore Reagan” zone showed of Reagan’s Early College program. Harvest Fest, in its [...]
Austin Voices teamed with Education Austin as the plenary presenters at the 18th annual AFT Center for School Improvement Leadership Institute on Jan. 21-24, 2016. Teams from school districts around the country came for four days to do intensive work around challenging school improvement issues. AVEY and Education Austin were joined by Raul Sanchez, Principal [...]
AVEY has been awarded a $2.5 million federal Full Services Community School grant to support the Lanier HS Vertical Team and a grant, in partnership with Education Austin, to support community schools in the Reagan HS Vertical Team, from the AFT Innovation Fund and the National Education Association. The Lanier grant, beginning in October, 2015 [...]
