More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Hello! I am the librarian at Austin Discovery School, an open enrollment charter school in East Austin serving kindergarten through eighth grade. My mission is to encourage children to read widely for pleasure as well as to be inquisitive and questioning and to give them the tools to find and analyse the information needed to answer these questions.
Our library program is fast-paced, active, challenging, hopefully always engaging, and very often loud. I have high standards about what the children should be able to accomplish. I think they enjoy coming to the library because they know they will have lots to do and lots to read.
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Hello! I am the librarian at Austin Discovery School, an open enrollment charter school in East Austin serving kindergarten through eighth grade. My mission is to encourage children to read widely for pleasure as well as to be inquisitive and questioning and to give them the tools to find and analyse the information needed to answer these questions.
Our library program is fast-paced, active, challenging, hopefully always engaging, and very often loud. I have high standards about what the children should be able to accomplish. I think they enjoy coming to the library because they know they will have lots to do and lots to read.