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AUSTIN (KXAN) — After weeks of hearing from frustrated parents, the Austin Independent School District announced Tuesday it plans to wait at least another year to implement proposed district-wide school boundary changes and make a decision on whether three elementary schools will close. The announcement marks a significant delay in the district's mission to reduce its multi-million-dollar budget shortfall and deal with declining enrollment.

Superintendent Matias Segura said Wednesday the district's Office of Professional Standards is looking into at least one staff member after community members raised "significant concerns" about the process of applying community feedback to the consolidation plan. Segura would not say whether the individuals under investigation were put on administrative leave but said he made changes to the structure of his team.

"Integrity of the process has to be held throughout the entire process or else it is hard for me to provide my support in taking it forward," Segura said on Wednesday. "We are at a point now based on information the administration has received where I have concerns about our ability to be responsive to the ideas community has brought forward."

"Over the last couple days, based on that information, it became clear that some of the refinements around boundary changes and the consolidations tied to balanced enrollment had not met my expectation when it comes to exploring all ideas that had validity," Segura said.

Vote delayed for three schools, sweeping boundary changes

On election night, Supt. Segura told families in an email that the board will still vote Nov. 20 on parts of the draft consolidation plan, including the plan to relocate schoolwide dual language programs and the proposal to consolidate 10 campuses. The board is also set to vote on some of the proposed boundary changes that would impact campuses in need of turnaround plans, according to the letter.

Segura said the board will not vote in November on three of the 13 campuses it initially proposed closing next year: Bryker Woods Elementary, Maplewood Elementary and Palm Elementary. The superintendent said any vote on those schools and the district-wide boundary changes will be delayed at least another year.

"I don't want anyone to leave here thinking we are doing anything other than taking the milestones and deliverables and breaking them up over two years," Segura said.

Segura said the district will focus on an academic plan in the spring semester, and, towards the end of the spring semester, the district will re-start discussions for the district-wide boundary changes and more school closures.

The district's plan to delay boundary changes and keep some schools open comes less than a week after the district released a different update to its consolidation plan to parents. Friday's update allowed parents to keep their children at their currently zoned school — despite the boundary changes — and also allowed younger siblings, who are not yet enrolled, to attend the school as well.

Bryker Woods, Maplewood and Palm

Since the district released its original draft consolidation plan in early October, parents at Bryker Woods and Maplewood — in particular — have organized to save their schools from closure. Parents put on a 'Save Maplewood' concert during the Oct. 29 school board meeting – and Bryker Wood's parents organized rallies calling for a new plan for the B-rated campus.

Maplewood Elementary School was the only A-rated school the district proposed shutting down in its original draft consolidation plan. Although, according to the district, the building is considered to be in unsatisfactory condition and the campus is over-enrolled sitting at 122% capacity.

The district's plan was to reassign Maplewood students to Campbell Elementary School, which will also require a state-approved turnaround plan. According to state accountability data, Campbell has received three consecutive D-ratings.

In the plan the district released on Friday, Bryker Woods Elementary was still slated for closure, but the district changed at least one of the campuses that would have received students, adding Casis Elementary School in Tarrytown as the newly zoned campus for at least some of the students at Bryker.

The district previously released data showing the Bryker Woods campus was also over-enrolled and the building, which dates back to 1939, is in unsatisfactory condition. In meetings with the district, parents have discussed the school's academic successes and urged the district not to rush its closure.

Under the district's previous plan, Palm Elementary would have closed, and students currently learning there would have moved to Perez Elementary, which also has a C rating from the state.

According to Austin ISD, Palm's building is in average condition, and the campus is under-enrolled at 46% capacity. Parents at Palm Elementary, located in the Onion Creek area, told KXAN that they would consider withdrawing their students from the district and exploring charter schools in the area if Palm were to close.

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