Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Page: 3 of 14
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2020
ELGIN COURIER - ELGIN, TEXAS
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SCHOOL
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SENIOR
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penses, as well as gift cards and properly managing pa- does not define what your there’s no plans of moving
the month of June.
she held out hope for a long
Currently, Elgin ISD plans time, thinking the situation
online college, Kayla Arines year. When the COVID-19
pandemic shut down the
Texas, and Ruben Vega will brate their seniors.
Class of 2020 wouldn’t get tendance and a livestream
go on to study at Austin
of the ceremony online.
very proud of them and had accomplished in school parade for the graduates,
and their plans after high where everyone would re-
never possibly plan for or
ested in adopting a student socially-distanced as seniors
and their families drove by.
However, this effort fell her daughter, Madison Os-
to to make it through high agement.
rades were canceled earlier
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REQUIRED BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS:
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COVID-19 situation has af-
fected their daughters when
Lippke and Charlotte tiveslike Adopt A Senior en-
Johnson, another parent couraged her and made her
their accomplishments.
You always get a sense of
satisfaction that you did a
good job teaching them,
and that they did a great
plans to enlist in the navy,
Leslie Suazo is headed to
the University of North
her students donations
towards their college ex-
all graduating seniors in
the midst of the COVID-19
pandemic. After reminisc-
ing with her students over
lunch, Meyer was able to
see how far her students
had come and the people
they had grown up to be:
Edith Plancarte has just
completed a degree in busi-
ness administration from an
can coordinate with the stu-
dent or their parents to give
not end anytime soon, it
made her upset, but initia-
As of Monday evening, Bastrop County’s COVID-19 dashboard shows the
above information. See the latest numbers at www.co.bastrop.tx.us/page/em.
coronavirus.
Community College.
“It just brought back
texas.gov/covidl9, includes
information about hospi-
talized patients in the five-
county Austin-Round Rock
Metropolitan Statistical
Area (MSA), in addition
to the case numbers for
Austin and Travis County.
The MSA includes Bastrop,
Caldwell, Hays, Travis and
Williamson County.
As of Monday morning,
the MSA has 90 inpatients
in the region’s hospitals,
with 42 patients in the
intensive care units (ICU)
and 25 ventilators in use.
Last week, 89 people
were in the hospital as
inpatients due to COVID -
19, 31 patients were in
the ICU and 21 ventilators
were in use.
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• Proof of Residency or Approved address
• acceptable documents include current gas, water, or electricity bill or lease
agreement/mortgage
• Immunization records
• Optional:
• Student’s social security card
2. Parent must complete and submit the online 2020-2021 PK and Kindergarten
Registration application.
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• Student’s birth certificate
• acceptable documents include official birth certificate, adoption record, passport
or other legal document that establishes student’s age and identity
• Parent/guardian photo ID
• acceptable documents include driver’s license, state or international ID, passport
Required to DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY for PK (upload at least one of the following,
but you may upload more than one if applicable):
• Proof of income
• acceptable documents include most recent paystub or unemployment, Worker’s
Compensation, or Disability payment stub
• SNAP, TANF or Medicaid benefits letter
• Documentation for foster care
• Documentation of military service
• Acceptable documents include statement of service or official letter from a
commander. Do NOT attach copies of US Department of Defense IDs
• Documentation of Star of Texas Award
in high school gets taken Lippke at 12-228-6562 or
away in an instant,” Bella slippkel969@yahoo.com.
New Business Hi
we are now open
“Something that I could their group. Anyone who
• Instructions will be provided explaining how to create a new student account and
how to login to an existing Parent Portal account.
Visit the link below to access the online application and directions.
https://www.elginisd.net/Domain/877
ATTENTION PARENTS OF 2020-2021 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS!
Your child has an opportunity to begin learning Spanish in Elgin ISD’s Two-Way Dual
Language Program.
If you are interested, please fill out the Parent Interest Form for Two-Way Dual
Language.
For more information, contact Dr. Sheila Guzman at 512.281.3434 Ext. 1235.
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ONE TOWN - ONE TEAM - ONE FAMILY
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Welcome PK and New to Elgin Kindergarten!
Thank you for your interest in PK and Kinder for the 2020-2021 school year in Elgin ISD.
PK and Kinder registration for 2020-2021 will be done online. You will be required to
upload necessary registration documents electronically. In an effort to slow the spread of
COVID-19 in our community, our schools are currently closed and PK/K registration will
take place electronically this year.
**lf your student is currently enrolled in Elgin ISD there is no need to complete PK and
Kinder electronic registration. PK/Kinder registration is only for new students who are
currently not enrolled in Elgin ISD.
PK Registration Process for 2020-2021
1. Parent will need to upload the following documents as part of the online application.
Please collect these documents, and scan or take a picture of them before beginning your
application:
REQUIRED TO SUBMIT REGISTRATION:
wishes to get involved or
make sure a senior is in-
cluded in the program
can contact Stephanie
zip code has an additional
22 cases in Travis County.
The unincorporated
portion of the 78602 zip
code, which is the area
surrounding the city of
Bastrop, has 24 cases. This
area includes the Camp
Swift and Lake Bastrop re-
gions. Including the cases
within the city limits, the
78602 zip code has a total
of 28 cases.
The unincorporated
portion of the 78957 zip
code, which is the area
surrounding the city of
Smithville, has seven
cases, bringing the total
for that entire zip code to
17.
The rest of the cases in
the unincorporated re-
gions of the county are
found in the following zip
codes:
78612 (Cedar Creek): 25
cases
78616 (Dale): eight cases
within Bastrop County
78617 (Del Valle): 14
cases within Bastrop
County
78650 (McDade): three
cases
78659 (Paige): four cases
See the latest numbers
at www.co.bastrop.tx.us/
page/em.coronavirus.
The city of Austin’s
COVID-19 dashboard,
found at www.austin
wonderful, loving and re-
spectful adults.”
Meyer was able to recon-
forward.”
Meyer said Adopt A Se-
nior is important for this
year’s graduates because
they weren’t able to experi-
ence their last semester of
school and everything that
includes.
“It was really important
for all of us ... that we show
them that we care, and that
we’re proud of them and
their accomplishments, and
that we’re excited for their
bright futures,” she said.
The organizers of the
Elgin Adopt A 2020 Senior
project are looking to reach
more graduating students
who are not yet listed in
school. Then, people inter- main in their cars and stay the pandemic caused school think would happen, hap-
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to be closed and events to pened, and the major thing
be canceled. Johnson said you’re looking towards
featured a series of graphs 89.3 percent of Elgin ISD’s and Los Senderos. The lots will be in Elgin ISD’s grows. Pool said PASA’s pro-
installing purple light bulbs to hold an in-person gradu- would blow over and she
on houses and businesses ation either Friday evening, would be able to go back to
nect with these students to help them buy household rades in Elgin would pres- life is going to be,”’Johnson
schools, the parents began in Elgin. Last month, June 5 or Saturday morn- school. When it set in that
looking for ways to cele- when it looked like the ing, June 6, with limited at- the school closure would
a ticipating student is posted worked to try and get the
flood of wonderful mem- to the group, including in- school district and the city of an Elgin graduating se- feel like people cared about
ories,” Meyer said. “I was formation such as what they to help them put on a senior nior, have seen the way the her and her classmates.
job learning and applying them gifts, graduation cards through after the Western borne, has been disheart-
their knowledge to be able and other signs of encour- Days and Juneteenth pa- _
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showing numbers of stu- resident students are at- development projects that jurisdiction, will bring more posed plan is one of many
dents enrolled in the Austin tending Elgin ISD, which is will be more important in housing to the far west por- ways for the district to plan
Metro area school districts a little lower than the aver- the second half of the next tion of the district. for growth, and this plan
Justin Silhavy from PASA and the one-year change in age ofaround 93 percent. A ten years include Brick- The report gives three may not be anywhere close
walked the board through numbers. Elgin is now in the major nearby charter school ston, Harvest Ridge, Trin- scenarios for growth, with to what the district does,
the first half of the presenta- top 15 school districts out of that could affect Elgin ISD is ity Ranch, Manor Heights a moderate growth scenario The analysis broke down
tion, which looked at growth 31 districts regarding nu- a 1,500-student K-12 IDEA and Eagle’s Landing. The and a higher and a lower es- the district by elementary
projections in the school dis- meric change in enrollment charter school campus County Line Road corri- timate. In 2020, Elgin ISD sch001 attendance zones
tictadthyariousfactors over one year, with 116 new in Manor, opening in fall dor is one of the emerging enrollment is 4,718, a 3.71 and projected the increase
P P students between Fall 2018 2021, where between 15 growth areas in the district, percent increase from the Attpnr|Arirp in those zones
^hUovTD-W pandemic and Fall 2019, and ranking and 25 percent of students and build-on-your-own-lot previous year. Under the through the next ten
, ... f r 14th in percent change with could come from Elgin ISD. subdivisions, such as Las moderate growth scenario, 11 1 c.
has added certain factors L . m1 , " 01 . ° 11 _ ’ As the number of students
. ... . 2.6 percent growth. Then, the presentation Colmas or Summer Moon, Elgin ISD could see 9,930 . . c . .
and conditions to the report. 1°., e . . . . ... . . , I. .. projected for each elemen-
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However, Silhavy said the . ,.. ‘c tary school reaches campus
water has cleared," although charter and private schools, upcoming development of Elgin along FM1704 and 9.69 percent increase from the report add
the situation is still fluid, which could affect atten- projects in the district. State Highway 95. These the previous year. When J
When the pandemic hit dance at Elgin ISD cam- Over the next ten years, build-on-your-own-lot looking at the projections in 66 . 7
PASA had already collected puses as students transfer the report identifies a total neighborhoods, where in- the long term ten years out, schools at certain years. The
most of its data but Elgin out of the district. Silhavy of 10,275 new housing dividuals buy lots to move there’s a larger gap between report did the same with
ISD asked to push back the said Elgin ISD is not greatly units in the school district, in a manufactured house or the low- and high-growth the middle and intermedi-
presentation of the report affected by charter schools, Some of the development build their own home, tend scenario. ate schools, as well as gave
by a month; in that time, but it is something they projects that will have the to yield more students per Next, Kris Pool from PASA an estimated time when
interviews have shown that should watch out for. How- largest impacts in the first household, the report said, presented suggested ideas new high schools or an ex-
builders and developers are ever, about six percent of the five years will be Elm Creek In the latter half of the next for the district to build new panded high school might
“not as skittish as they were Elgin ISD student popula- North, Homestead Estates, ten years, Brickston and schools and update atten- be needed.
two months ago.” tion is transferring to attend Summer Moon, Pepper- Manor Heights, a subdivi- dance zones as the student Read more online at www.
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ent a significant challenge said. “It’s always going to be
for the city and the police better. They’re resilient.”
department, given their Lippke said there’s a lot
current demands and re- of uncertainty right now,
sources. Additionally, the but it’s easier to know that
city would likely not autho- everyone else is having sim-
rize any large gathering of ilar problems and worries,
people for a parade through Her daughter, Bella, said
through the Elgin Adopt items as they prepare for
a 2020 Senior Facebook dorm life.
group, which was started “For me, personally, more
by a group of parents who than anything I wanted to
had already been work- connect with them on an
ing together on Project educational level,” she said.
Celebration, according to Senior parents are also
Stephanie Lippke, the par- encouraging the commu-
ent of a senior graduating nity to show their support
from Elgin High School this in other ways, such as by
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10 am - 3 pm Tuesday - Friday,
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school and on to college. ... As part of the Adopt A Se-
They’ve all grown up to be nior program, Meyer gave
this month; according to ened by missing out on Lippke said. “I felt lost for a
an announcement from the senior year activities. long time because I didn’t
city about these festivals “We just want to be able really know how to feel
released on May 2, holding to lift them up and say, ‘this and where to go, because
In the Adopt A Senior an in-person graduation,
group, profiles of each par- a group of parents also
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Hodges, Julianne. Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 27, 2020, newspaper, May 27, 2020; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1555574/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Elgin Public Library.