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AISD Sued Over Eastside Documents

The Austin Independent School District has confirmed the principal at Eastside Memorial High School is resigning.
KUT News
The Austin Independent School District has confirmed the principal at Eastside Memorial High School is resigning.

A lawsuit filed today accuses the Austin school district of withholding public information on plans for Eastside Memorial High School.

AISD says it needs to find a third party to help run the troubled school to prevent the state from taking it over. Eastside has not met state academic accountability standards for nearly a decade.

But Steve Swanson, a member of the school’s campus advisory committee, says repeated open-records requests he’s submitted to the district have not turned up planning process documents for the campus. So he’s suing in Travis County District Court.

“I do not know that they’re withholding anything,” Swanson said. “That’s the purpose for the suit, so we can go through the process to know exactly what they do have or don’t have.”

The district says it can’t respond to the lawsuit until it has a chance to analyze it. In a statement, the district says it believes it has responded to all of Swanson’s public information requests.

Nathan Bernier is the transportation reporter at KUT. He covers the big projects that are reshaping how we get around Austin, like the I-35 overhaul, the airport's rapid growth and the multibillion-dollar transit expansion Project Connect. He also focuses on the daily changes that affect how we walk, bike and drive around the city. Got a tip? Email him at nbernier@kut.org. Follow him on X @KUTnathan.
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