EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from North East & Northside ISDs
QUOTEOFNOTE “CLEARLY, CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN OLDANDNEWISWHAT DOMINATED THE 2018 PROPOSAL. IT ISWHAT MORE SODOMINATES THIS PROPOSAL.” BRIAN WOODS, SUPERINTENDENT, SPEAKING ABOUT THE DISTRICT’S 2022 BOND PROPOSAL. DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTS NORTHSIDE ISD Northside ISD has revised its 2021-22 school calendar in order to give teachers more time for planning. The teacher planning time/student early dismissal days are scheduled for Feb. 16, March 23, April 20 and May 18. Elementary schools will dismiss at 11:45 a.m.; middle schools will dismiss at 12:40 p.m.; and high schools will dismiss at 1 p.m. Breakfast and sack lunches are provided on these days. SAN ANTONIO Cornerstone Christian Schools freshman Samuel Draper was among 100 students nationwide selected to participate in the 2022 Disney Dreamers Academy. The four-day academy takes place each year at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. According to DDA, the academy was founded in 2008 as a way for select young adults ages 13-19 to learn life skills by interacting with cast members, celebrities and industry experts as well as community members. North East ISD will meet March 14 at 5:30 p.m. 8961 Tesoro Drive, San Antonio 210-407-0000 • www.neisd.net Northside ISD will meet March 14 at 6 p.m. 5900 Evers Road, San Antonio 210-397-8500 • www.nisd.net MEETINGSWE COVER
NISDvoters to decide $992Mbond proposal inMay
BY EDMOND ORTIZ
NISD BONDHIGHLIGHTS Northside ISD will o er a $992 million single-proposition bond during the May 7 election. Highlights include: $45M to build one new campus, an elementary
NORTHSIDE ISD O cials with the Northside ISD will oat a $992 million bond package in the May 7 local elec- tion, with most of the funds proposed to cover improve- ments to existing campuses such as those in the Clark High School attendance zone. The NISD board unanimously voted Jan. 25 to put the single-proposition bond on the ballot. O cials said no new property tax rate hike will be needed to support projects. With more than 102,600 students enrolled in the current academic year, NISD is Texas’ fourth biggest public school district, NISD o cials said. NISD voters have approved the district’s last eight bond issues, dating back to 1995. A 250-member citizens bond committee reviewed existing NISD facilities and collected input from district residents and employees to develop proposed projects. District o cials said the bond proposal will help NISD keep pace with growth and address older schools, more than half of which are more than 20 years old. The oldest NISD campus is nearly 70 years old. “Clearly, closing the gap between old and new is what dominated the 2018 proposal,” Superintendent Brian Woods said. “It is what more so dominates this proposal.” If approved, the bond would fund construction of one
school in the Alamo Ranch neighborhood $645M for renovations, reconstruction and upgrades at existing facilities districtwide $14M for technology improvements $18.1M for safety and security
SOURCE: NORTHSIDE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
new elementary school in the fast-growing Alamo Ranch area. Tentatively called Village at West Pointe West, the new campus is estimated to cost $45 million. The new bond proposes $56 million to replace ne arts facilities at Clark High School and $24.8 million to upgrade magnet program facilities at Hobby Middle School. NISD plans to o er public meeting dates and locations and other information on its website—www.nisd.net—to inform district residents about the proposed bond before the May 7 election, o cials said. Early voting is April 25-May 3.
ReaganHigh graduate’sWestern lmdebuts at Sundance FilmFestival
BY EDMOND ORTIZ
Sundance Film Festival was carried out online for a second straight year. According to a release, Bernard and fellow producers were eager to lm “God’s Country” after reading the script written by Shaye Ogbonna and the lm’s director, Julian Higgins. Thandiwe Newton stars in the con- temporary Western as Sandra, who confronts two hunters after she nds them trespassing on her property. Bernard also produced a television project, “Pineapple,” which debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
NORTH EAST ISD Halee Bernard, a 2009 Reagan High School graduate, was one of four producers behind “God’s Country,” a feature lm that premiered during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in January. Usually held at the Sundance Resort in Park City, Utah, Sundance is the nation’s largest independent lm festival with an average total attendance of more than 40,000 people, event organizers say. But because of the pandemic, the
Thandiwe Newton is seen in “God’s Country,” a lm co-produced by 2009 Reagan High graduate Halee Bernard.
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