The district is proposing to give away family service centers
“There is a disconnect,” said Allen Weeks, executive director of Austin Voices for Education and Youth. “You know, if our work is so good – if it’s a national model that helps 7,000 families a year in our neediest schools – why does the district want to turn that over to a partner that lacks experience in serving families? Why do they want to break a system that works?”
The plan follows a routine request for proposal to run the centers sent out by AISD in December. Austin Voices has participated in an RFP every five years since collaborating with the district, but they’ve never competed with another organization. Results from the most recent RFP showed CIS scoring slightly higher in several metrics than Austin Voices – out of 100 points total, each scored in the 80s.
There is also concern that AISD is laying claim to something it did not create, and, arguably, does not own. Austin Voices, not the district, originated the centers and brought in the funding needed to run them, Weeks told us. He said AISD currently provides only about 13% of the centers’ budget – $218,000 this year. By contrast, Austin Voices supplied 75% of the money spent at the centers last year. The remaining 12% of the budget comes from the city and the county.
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