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Events Coming Up!
In-person & Virtual
Rodriguez v. San Antonio
50th Anniversary Commemoration
The Fight for School Finance Equity:
Past, Present, and Future
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
4:30-7:30 pm CT
Virtual: 5:00-7:30 pm CT

San Antonio is the place where the battle for fair funding of schools in Texas was born with the Rodríguez vs. San Antonio ISD case and the series of Edgewood cases that followed. This community was at the front of what turned out to be a hard and often bitter fight that has continued for decades – the fight to assure that children in this and other communities like it would not continue to suffer under a bad and unjust system of financing schools.

On the 50th anniversary of this momentous ruling, IDRA, Trinity University and its Center for Education Leadership, and Edgewood ISD are hosting a commemorative event to reflect on the case, its impact, and its legacy of struggle and activism.

This case led to IDRA’s founding, also 50 years ago. Learn more.


Registration is not needed to attend in person.
Webinar ~ March 29
How the IDRA Valued Youth Partnership Engages Struggling Students
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
2:00-3:00 pm CT

Find out key factors that keep students coming back and how can you help them feel a sense of success day after day.

IDRA will show strategies that have been proven successful in the IDRA Valued Youth Partnership program and how you can integrate them into your school planning for the next school year.

With a strong research base, the IDRA Valued Youth Partnership has demonstrated tremendous success in helping students focus on their education and increasing attendance by focusing on students with the highest need of support. For almost four decades, the VYP has kept 35,000 students in school and positively impacted the lives of 750,000 children, families and educators!

Get an overview of the program, its strong research base and steps to bring the program to your school, including how to cover the cost.

And hear students and teachers describe their VYP experience!

Schools need partners with a record of proven success because all children are valuable, none is expendable.
Contact Dr. Nilka Avilés (nilka.aviles@idra.org) if you are interested in bringing the program to your school or for any questions about the Valued Youth Partnership program.
Webinar ~ March 27
Bring VisionCoders to Your School
Wednesday, March 27, 2023
4:00-5:00 pm CT

Calling all San Antonio-area middle schools!

We have a unique opportunity for your school community that can greatly benefit your students with a high-quality, social-emotional learning (SEL ) and asset-based STEM-CS program – at no cost to you. This in-school program offers students who are in at-risk situations to become the next generation of software coders through IDRA’s innovative project, VisionCoders. In this course, eighth-grade students create educational games for prekinder and first grade students in their school community.

Learn more about this incredible program and why you will want to launch it at your school during the 2023-24 school year.
For more information, contact Dr. Stephanie Garcia, VisionCoders project director and IDRA’s STEM and gender equity education specialist at stephanie.garcia@idra.org.
IDRA is an independent, non-profit organization. Our mission is to achieve equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college.