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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Award-winning author speaks at Grandview Elementary
Category Archives: Steiner Ranch
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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First-of-year Vandegrift schedule glitches are fixed
Viper community pitches in to help
By LESLEE BASSMAN, Four Points News
When nearly 2,800 Vandegrift High School students started the 2019-2020 school year a month ago, the district-wide technology overhaul and ensuing problems left days of confusion for many Vipers. VHS counselors and other key staffers were in overdrive mode for nearly a week resolving the technology blip that caused errors in student schedules.
The Viper community responded and about a dozen volunteers supported VHS through the problem. Most of the volunteers would stay longer than their two to three hour shifts because they just saw the need to be there, said Carla George, the parent of a senior student, who coordinated the assistance.
September 15 2019 Issue
