September 22 2019 Issue
Category Archives: Four Points
Award-winning author speaks at Grandview Elementary
Award-winning, New York Times best-selling children’s author Ryan T. Higgins read some of his stories to students at Grandview Hills Elementary on Tuesday.
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Hill Country Bible Church opens after a year+ of construction
By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News
Hill Country Bible Church moved into its new church building on the hilltop near the main entrance of Steiner Ranch a couple of weeks ago. This is the culmination of many years of dedication and planning for the church, which had been meeting remotely for a decade at Laura W. Bush Elementary. HCBC Steiner has around 300 members not including hundreds more who visit each week.
The local campus is part of the larger Hill Country Bible Church at Lakeline. HCBC has other campuses and church plants throughout Austin and beyond.
Groundbreaking for the Steiner church on its 30-acre site was July 29, 2018
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LISD approves hiring 20 additional special education staffers
Parent urges meaningful inclusion
By APRIL S. KELLEY, Hill Country News
Local parent Kevin O’Brien asked the Leander Independent School District to make “meaningful inclusion” part of the special education program, prior to the board’s approval to hire 20 additional staff members for the program at a cost of nearly $800,000. This happened at the Sept. 5 board meeting.
“I understand that there is going to be about $800,000 going towards special education,” O’Brien said. “I hope that you guys focus not just on hiring more teachers but changing the mindset of what meaningful inclusion is and why it works.”
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Leander ISD exceeds 22:1 class-size ratio in 18 schools
Board approves waivers to be submitted to TEA
By APRIL S. KELLEY, Hill Country News
Eighteen K-4 schools in the Leander Independent School District exceed the Texas cap class-size ratio of 22 students for every teacher in elementary schools.
Elementary schools in LISD that exceed the 22:1 ratio in some sections include all five in the Four Points area: Grandview Hills, Laura Welch Bush, River Place, River Ridge and Steiner Ranch. Other LISD elementary schools that exceed are: Whitestone, Faubion, Block House Creek, Mason, Giddens, Cox, Deer Creek, Rutledge, Winkley, Parkside, Ronald Reagan, Christine Camacho and Monta Jane Akin.
At a meeting last week, LISD board members approved waivers to be submitted to the Texas Education Agency.