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Adventures in Education
Provides information on careers, colleges, and financial aid for students and families. Features guided tours, a scholarship database, Student Loan Inquiry, knowledge bases, and links to other significant internet resources.

AIR Austin - Knowbility
Provides access to educational and employment opportunities in information technology to people with disabilities. Also provides training and consulting to businesses to help them make their products and services more accessible on-line.

Arc of the Capital Area
Founded by parents concerned about the exclusion of their children with mental retardation from public schools. Also assists individuals with developmental disabilities to realize all rights and opportunities for full participation in the community.

Austin Area Homeschoolers
Austin Area Homeschoolers is a network of families who homeschool or are exploring the possibility. We are an inclusive group composed of individuals who are willing to share their homeschooling experiences.

Austin City Council of PTAs
An umbrella organization for local units of PTAs/PTSAs in the Austin Independent School District. The Austin City Council of PTAs has over 90 local PTA units.

Austin Collaborative of Cultural and Educational Sites and Schools
ACCESS exists to promote and facilitate collaboration among Austin area cultural and educational sites and schools to ensure that Austin's students and educators have opportunities for experiential learning

Bluebonnet Elementary PTA
Parent-Teachers Association for Bluebonnet Elementary, located in Round Rock, Texas.

Capital Area Training Foundation
A non-profit, industry-led organization that brings employers and educators together. The Telecommunity Partnership Initiative is a special City-funded program that offers free computer training and access to the local community at AISD campuses.

Caswell Memorial Scholarship Foundation
We provide a yearly scholarship to an AISD band student senior who will be attending the University of Texas at Austin.

Developing a School Web Site
Tip sheets with information to take your organization through the entire Web development process on your own, or, to help you understand the process if you are working with an outside consultant or volunteer.

Education Austin
Education Austin is the first National Education Association/American Federation of Teachers merged local in Texas.

Education Options Resource Center
A non profit agency serving Austin by providing the most current and complete information for Austin's public, private, charter and home schools with the purpose of promoting parental involvement in education

Education Service Center
Provides assistance and resources that may be used by educators, campuses, and school districts to advance the education process.

Expanding Your Horizons
Austin Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conferences are all-day events at which school age girls attend hands-on workshops led by local women who are pursuing careers in math, science, engineering, and other technology-based fields.

Family Learning Center
Centers are education, training and community resources located in neighborhoods. They offer a well equipped, risk-free environment where learning is fun and is presented as a family affair for all ages.

Holy Family Homeschoolers
Holy Family Homeschoolers is a support and field trip group for homeschooling families in the greater Austin area. This group has a Catholic focus, but welcomes all families who are homeschooling or who are considering homeschooling.

Institute of Culture and Language

Junior Achievement of Central Texas
To educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business and economics and be workforce ready.

Lake Travis Education Foundation
The mission of the Lake Travis Education Foundation is to develop financial resources that promote and support an exemplary education for all students of the Lake Travis Independent School District.

Literacy Austin
Provides basic literacy and English as a Second Language instruction for adults age 17 and older who read below the fifth grade level.

Literacy Council of Williamson County
To seek and provide the resources and programs necessary for individuals to achieve literacy.

Literacy Volunteers of America, Bastrop
Literacy training and pre-GED for students; ESL (English as a second language) tutoring; tutor training

Manor Education Foundation
A 501(c)(3) non-profit education organization that strives to improve education for the Manor ISD community. We provide funding support and assistance throughout the community in the form of grants, scholarships, institutes, and special programs.

National Engineers Week
Local events for National Engineers Week are coordinated by a Steering Committee made up of individuals from local industry, educational institutions and community groups. It works year round to prepare for the events and evaluate their success.

Reading is Fundamental

Round Rock ISD Education Foundation
The Round Rock Independent School District (RRISD) Education Foundation is a partnership between the community, local businesses, civic organizations and parents to support Round Rock ISD's continuous quest for greater excellence.

Round Rock Talented and Gifted Association

Society of Women Engineers Southwest Texas Section
An educational nonprofit organization of professional women engineers who support current engineers at monthly meetings with speakers and work with young girls to increase awareness for engineering careers.

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Operates under contracts and grants from federal, state, and private sources to conduct research, develop school improvement tools, and provide assistance to education agencies and policymakers.

The Sustainable Food Center of Austin
Our mission is to promote the important role of food in developing healthy, self-sustaining communities.

Texas Classroom Teachers Association
Devoted exclusively to the needs of classroom teachers and other professional, nonadministrative education personnel.

Texas Education Agency
Provides access to information released by the TEA. The goal of this site is to provide timely, useful information to the Texas education community.

Texas Education Network (TENET)
To advance and promote education in Texas by providing a transparent communications infrastructure which can be used to foster innovation and educational excellence in Texas.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board was created by the Texas Legislature in 1965 to be "the highest authority of the state in matters of public higher education."

Texas PTA Homepage
To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.

Texas Space Grant Consortium
To use interest in space to increase participation in science and mathematics in the public schools.

Tomorrow's Women in Science and Technology
To promote science and math education and career planning for girls and women.

UT Austin Evening Classes
University Extension is a non-profit program that makes UT Austin courses available to the entire Austing community. Admission to the University is not required to take these evening courses.

UT Austin Student Organizations
There are over 750 registered students organizations on the UT campus. The UT Computation Center provides free disk space to any registered organization interested in publishing on the Web. This page contains those organizations that are publishing.

Victory Tutorial Program
To provide individualized educational support for youth by promoting the development of academic skills, encouraging a positive self-concept, and involving the community in the education process.

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