https://www.lynnforaisd.com/home daily 1.0 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3333e8185cb74ebfcbbd98/ab803aef-6d7b-4c53-a434-c57baeba3b9c/Lynn+Boswell%282%29.jpg About Lynn It’s time to re-elect Lynn Boswell as your Austin ISD Trustee for District 5! Trustee Lynn Boswell has a long history of effective advocacy and hands-on volunteer work with Austin’s students, families, teachers, and education community, both as an experienced AISD Trustee and as a public education advocate at the local, state, and national levels. Lynn's work on the Austin ISD board has brought stability, transparency, and promise to the district's students, staff, and families. Since she was elected in 2020, the board has hired a superintendent who shares our values and brings a powerful set of skills to the work, passed a historic $2.4 billion bond to improve safety and rebuild aging campuses, and worked to stabilize and strengthen Austin ISD after disruptions caused by Covid and turnover of district leadership. Key improvements include increasing teacher and staff retention; protecting programs like arts, dual language, and school libraries; and strengthening relationships with the city, county, and community. https://www.lynnforaisd.com/getinvolved daily 0.75 2024-06-18 https://www.lynnforaisd.com/service daily 0.75 2024-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3333e8185cb74ebfcbbd98/d752d0ff-d53d-4e16-b06c-bb3989a8add0/ACPTA%26CapMetro+with+AISD+trustees+copy.jpg Service & Advocacy - Connected to Community Everyone in our community has a part to play in supporting our schools. Lynn has a proven history of collaborative and strategic work to promote policies and support partnerships that help our city’s students. She coordinated parent and student advocacy to help make CapMetro free for all K-12 students. In 2017, Lynn was part of a coalition formed to study and recommend the elimination of Austin’s juvenile curfew. The policy, in place for 27 years, was intended to deter juvenile crime. Instead, the curfew was an ineffective deterrent that had a disproportionate impact on Black and :Latino youth. Lynn helped write the group’s report, and the City Council unanimously approved the recommendation. Lynn also served on the Travis County Census 2020 Complete Count Committee, created to ensure that Austin receives our full share of federal funds for education, transportation, healthcare, housing, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3333e8185cb74ebfcbbd98/1597417169762-H24RCFSMB6635E1GQXI1/IMG_0461+copy.jpg Service & Advocacy - Mentorship for Austin ISD Students As a longtime mentor for PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, Lynn helped high school students develop journalism and crtiical thinking skills by producing reports about current events. This nationwide program pairs teachers with professional journalists who serve as classroom mentors. Lynn mentored students at Austin High and Navarro in AISD, as well as students in Pflugerville and Manor. She has also spoken about the impact of SRL on panels with Austin ISD students at SXSWedu and the PBS Annual Meeting. Three SRL students have worked with her on documentary projects after their graduations. You can see student work from Austin and across the US on the Student Reporting Labs website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3333e8185cb74ebfcbbd98/90b97fed-9add-4cbc-9a80-f1608dfeaff0/2023+grad+speaker+1+wider+cropJPG.jpeg Service & Advocacy - Legacy of Service to Austin ISD Lynn’s service to Austin ISD began with the Casis Elementary PTA when her son started Kindergarten. She later served as President of the Austin Council of PTAs, leading district-wide work to ensure all families have meaningful partnerships with their schools and earning national recognition for the Council’s work. Lynn also sat on the boards of three campus PTAs. In addition to her work to support family-school partnerships, Lynn has been a member of AISD’s Visual & Performing Arts Strategic Planning Steering Committee, three Campus Advisory Committees, the District Advisory Council, AISD UpClose, and the NACER Leadership Team. Lynn was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2020. She has served as board secretary since 2022 and has chaired the board’s Intergovernmental Relations Committee during two legislative sessions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3333e8185cb74ebfcbbd98/2fe5f626-4e02-46cf-b95b-02c7b571fed0/2024+-+statewide+advocacy+TASB.jpg Service & Advocacy - Statewide Leadership Austin ISD is one of more than 1000 school districts in Texas. We have far more power when we speak with one voice. As a director of the Texas Association of School Boards, Lynn helps shape and promote this powerful organization’s statewide advocacy agenda, working closely with trustees from across Texas to advocate for shared goals that include increased funding, protecting districts’ local control, supporting student mental health, improving teacher retention, and reducing the burden of high-stakes standardized testing. TASB also offers services that help districts save millions of dollars each year and connects trustees for training and opportunities to share best practices. In addition to her statewide leadership, Lynn serves as a member of the national school board steering committee for Local Progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3333e8185cb74ebfcbbd98/5be0f0ea-4beb-4193-a9f5-49afae6b3678/2023+Senate+testimony+4+cropped+2.png Service & Advocacy - Public Education Advocacy Lynn is an experienced public education advocate who understands how decisions made at the Texas Legislature impact our local schools. She helped create Just Fund It TX, which unites public school supporters from across Texas to share one essential message with lawmakers: our public schools need more funding. Lynn was a featured speaker at the Raise Your Hand Texas Measure What Matters Day, urging lawmakers to create a more meaningful system of testing and accountability. She was the keynote speaker at the 2024 Capitol Day for the student-led advoacy group SEAT. She testifies regularly about issues impacting public education when the Texas Legislature is in session. And she led the effort to create Austin ISD’s Advocacy Advisory Committee. https://www.lynnforaisd.com/about-district-5 daily 0.75 2024-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3333e8185cb74ebfcbbd98/e1ee84d0-909d-40c8-b6cf-6616d452b595/Screenshot+2024-05-26+at+4.26.49%E2%80%AFPM.png About District 5 Click the map to expand and explore District 5. https://www.lynnforaisd.com/supporters daily 0.75 2024-08-09 https://www.lynnforaisd.com/showyoursupport daily 0.75 2024-06-20