Equity

The new food plan looks to bring together community partners and stakeholders to implement better practices to divert food from landfills and to expand and improve food composting efforts.

The transit agency hopes capping fares and reducing how much people with low incomes have to pay will boost ridership.

Travis County’s health care district is constructing the health centers in Del Valle and Hornsby Bend. The centers, which are expected to open next year, are part of the agency’s plan to address health care inequities in the county.

The issues have galvanized students who live in Riverside and rely on the shuttle to get to and from campus. Many low-income students, who are often people of color, live in the area because it's more affordable.

Para poder recibir miles de millones de dólares en asistencia federal, Capital Metro primero tendrá que cumplir con ciertos requisitos de derechos civiles. Varios activistas y académicos dicen que la agencia de transporte público aún no ha alcanzado esas metas de equidad racial.

To qualify for billions in federal assistance, Capital Metro has to meet federal civil rights standards that activists and academics say fall short of achieving racial equity goals.

Alejandro Delgado es el primer director ejecutivo de matriculación en el distrito. Su trabajo es atraer a más estudiantes a las escuelas de AISD — y asegurarse que se queden ahí.

Alejandro Delgado is the district's first executive director of enrollment. His job is to attract more students to AISD schools — and keep them there.

Twelve schools are using PTA money to cover the salaries for staff members. The district said the practice creates inequities within the district.

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