Mike Villarreal

Director of the Urban Education Institute #UEI

[Mike Villarreal @MikeVillarreal]

https://t.co/LmC7pMCngU was built by data nerds. Here are a few insights we discovered. In 2024, 16% of Bexar County single-family homeowners appealed their property appraisal. Of these, 87% won a reduction, saving approximately $500.

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@dlavine After the leg, I've continued to work on democratizing the property tax appraisal process. https://t.co/LmC7pMBPrm lets you see if you are being overappraised for free. For $45/home, use our platform to create a complete appeal-winning report with all the documentation needed.

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@dlavine Dick, Thanks for all your work on making our tax system more equitable. You are one of the folks I miss the most. Mike

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@fair_appraisal is an answer to appealing your property tax appraisal at a low cost of time and money. This is an example of AI helping solve a public problem.

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There is no one solution for improving college access and success. But dual credit programs are a tremendously promising solutions for all students including those who took longer to get serious about their studies. Read more about them and our research in our latest newsletter.

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Delighted to write this with my friend Harrison Keller, Commissioner of the Tx Higher Ed. Started working together in 2003 on education policy in leg. Today our organizations are helping students pursue their college dreams with this new A.I. technology. https://t.co/LtNzRCinz2

[UTSA_UrbanEducation @UTSAUrbanEd]

Big decisions deserve big support. In our January newsletter, we share our latest findings around economic outcomes, and why they are important for students to know when making decisions about their future.
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[UTSA_UrbanEducation @UTSAUrbanEd]

Let's explore a better metaphor for education that prioritizes humans. In our latest newsletter, Dr. Villarreal explores a metaphor for education that serves us better than the education-is-a-pipeline metaphor. Read it here: https://t.co/FMARIQgyx5

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Root problem is that the THECB removed journalism classes that could transfer to 4-yr colleges. Why can't UTSA, SAC, & local SA news media design a program that allows J students to start at SAC & finish their degrees at UTSA while working at the Ranger, KSYM, & local news orgs?

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UTSA & others are working to transform classroom learning into relevant project-based learning experiences that connect knowledge to valuable skills and degrees to careers. SAC's been doing this for 95yrs w/ the Ranger & journalism. Sad to learn it may end.

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@JessElizarraras SA Metro area was ranked 24th in pop among US Metro's in 2020. You are referring to 7th largest city, which is a misleading categorization. City govts have different policies & constraints in defining their boundaries. For example, the city rank suggests Dallas is smaller than SA

[UTSA_UrbanEducation @UTSAUrbanEd]

At the UEI, we see the damage done by the dominant "education-is-a-pipeline" metaphor and we want to do our part to stop it. Read more and tell us what metaphors you think are a better way to think about education: https://t.co/l2WCNCeAcZ

[Mike Villarreal @MikeVillarreal]

@DiegoBernalTX Was it challenged?

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@MikeBoard1200 @JoaquinCastrotx @TexasHDC @TMFtx @MikeBoard1200, I had no grey hairs pre-children. Once the children came so did the grey hairs. I'm just happy to still have hair.

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We should be debating how to exceed CDC guidelines on school operations, not disregard them. https://t.co/06DxTPf1gA

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When COVID-19 hit, our team at the Urban Education Institute at UTSA wanted to do something to help. Our answer was to document how COVID-19 affected teaching and learning in SA, with the hope of learning from this experience. Here is our first report: https://t.co/loAYc8piev

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Loved this column by Michael Taylor. https://t.co/Pn51FUljAt