Will students who have not mastered kindergarten skills benefit from another year of kindergarten before going into grade one? It has been suggested that there is no other topic in education that has such a wide difference of opinion as those researchers who do not advocate retention and those who are convinced that a child should be given another…

Data in this report suggest that AISD's full-day prekindergarten (pre-K) program helped reduce the number of students who were retained a grade level or were placed in special education services. The cost per student for full-day pre-K was less than the costs associated with grade-level retention or special education services.

This report summarizes results from the 2007 Austin Independent School District summer school program at those Title I schools that provided summer services to students who did not attend other district summer school programs.

This report summarizes Austin ISD's state-funded Optional Extended Year Program activities for the 2006-2007 school year.

This report summarizes evaluation information for the AISD Optional Extended Year grant program for the 2004-2005 school year.

This report summarizes evaluation results of the AISD state-funded Optional Extended Year Program for 2002-2003.