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-----Original Message----- From: Eanes ISD
eNews [mailto:info@eanes.k12.tx.us] Sent: Monday,
September 24, 2007 12:05 PM To: Subject: E3
Community Discussions An Important
Invitation to the Westbank Community Dear Neighbor:
The Eanes
community is fortunate to have one of the strongest public education systems in
the country! We know that Westlake High School graduates are poised for success
at the university level and someday will have an opportunity to contribute
positively in their chosen career fields.
In many ways, Eanes ISD can be viewed as a model
for educational excellence. Wouldn’t it be
tremendous if the success experienced by EISD schools and students was
reflective of the quality of public education everywhere? What if graduation
rates across Texas were near 100 percent? What if student success translated
into lower crime rates and greater global competitiveness for our country?
Valuable insight
from our community can make a difference in improving public education in our
region and state. We have been asked by the E3 Alliance to gather a
cross-section of our citizens together to identify what we are doing right, how
we can improve, how our successes can be replicated, what our
region/state/nation need from our education system, and many other related issues.
The E3
(Education Equals Economics) Alliance, which has been created to address these
issues, was formed in partnership with Austin Voices for Education and Youth and
Texas Forums, with cooperation from United Way, AARO, Austin Community College,
and The University of Texas at Austin.
Please consider
donating two evenings of your time to contribute to this important effort –
October 23 and October 30, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in the Hill Country Middle School
cafeteria. A light dinner will be provided. Please RSVP at e3eanes@gmail.com
so that we will have enough food available. It will be fun, informative, and
vital to the success of this region-wide initiative. For more information on
the forums, please view the flyer
http://e3alliance.org/pdfs/eanes-full.pdf.
