San Antonio school trying to ‘flip the script,’ foster entrepreneurship and creativity
March 15, 2019
Are entrepreneurship and traditional education totally at odds? Can practical business skills only be learned on the job? Or can we teach this at school? And if so, how do we teach in a school setting the key skills of launching and running companies and succeeding in business? In early March, I attended my first
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In partnership with UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio ISD is opening a new career-themed high school for students interested in the medical field. Listen to the full audio here. The campus, located on the Brooks development on the city’s South side, is called CAST Med. SAISD is currently taking applications for its first cohort of
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Giant robot moves Southwest ISD students into career opportunities
December 21, 2018
Inside a cubicle of high glass walls, 18-year-old Angel Mosqueda held what looked like the largest-ever remote control, with a full keyboard underneath a screen the size of an Etch A Sketch. But the object the Legacy High School senior controlled was even more remarkable — a massive robotic arm holding a tiny dry-erase marker,
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SAISD works to make school choice equitable
November 01, 2018
SAN ANTONIO – As News 4 continues its yearlong commitment to explore inequality, San Antonio’s Silent Crisis, we’re learning how school administrators worked the phones to make sure kids from every walk of life could go to a competitive new high school. “I’m currently working on a website I’m building for my professional communications class,”
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Medical-focused CAST high school to open next year
October 10, 2018
The third high school in the Center for Applied Science and Technology, or CAST, network will have a medical focus, opening in August with partners that include the San Antonio Independent School District, San Antonio College, UT Health San Antonio and two local hospitals. The new school’s principal will be Eddie Rodriguez, founding principal of
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With the launch of CAST Med High School nearing, San Antonio Independent School District announced a major donation and slate of partnerships that will help students advance their studies in the medical field when the campus opens its doors next fall. CAST Med is the third school in the CAST network, a group of in-district
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A San Antonio in-district charter high school that aims to prepare students for careers in technology and business got closer to that goal Thursday, thanks to a $250,000 gift from late movie theater mogul John L. Santikos. CAST Tech in the San Antonio Independent School District — it stands for the Centers for Applied Science
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Bexar County students go back to school in waves this month
August 09, 2018
First-time teacher Kathy Brinkley plans to guide her 200 new Folks Middle School students by drawing inspiration from a history teacher who had a profound effect on her. “He was the first one to really tell me college was an option for me,” said the incoming sixth-grade social studies teacher in Northside Independent School District.
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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools
July 16, 2018
San Antonio is hoping career-themed schools can alleviate a worker shortage and lift graduates into well-paying jobs SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google. Young people huddle over tablets, fiber optic cables run along the ceilings and a cybersecurity lab occupies the basement. The
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