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Austin ISD state takeover looms after TEA rejects plan to buy schools more time

Austin American-Statesman - May 29, 2026

Texas law has mandatory consequences when any campus achieves five failing grades in a row—the state must either close the offending campus or take over the entire school district.

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A graduate of Austin schools where his mother taught, Segura is ‘all in’ as superintendent

Austin American-Statesman - January 29, 2024

When the Austin school board in December 2022 appointed Matias Segura to temporarily run the district while members searched for a superintendent, he was focused on stabilizing the 73,000-student organization after years of turmoil wrought by leadership changes and the COVID-19 pandemic, he said.

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