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La La Land Cafe could bring signature coffee drinks to The Domain

La La Land Cafe is slated to open its next location at The Domain, per a recent Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing. A representative for the business did not immediately respond with an expected open date, or confirm other details. 

On the menu: The cafe is known for its signature drinks, such as the Banana Cloud Latte with vanilla bean, fresh bananas and a banana cloud top; the Strawberry Fields with strawberry matcha; and the Lavender Bloom served iced or hot with espresso or matcha. The menu also features strawberry or mango passionfruit iced coolers, and toasts with spreads such as truffle and burrata, avocado, or fruit and almond butter. 

What else? : The cafe opened its first Austin-area location off South Congress last summer. Another TDLR filing from October shows the cafe could also open a location off Burnet Road, Community Impact previously reported. The cafe has other locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Houston, San Antonio, Arizona, Tennessee and southern California. 

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Austin ISD projects $63 million budget shortfall as sale of Rosedale property stalls

Austin ISD is projecting a larger budget shortfall for this fiscal year after the sale of a former school property has been delayed.

The district is looking to further cut costs next fiscal year by staffing campuses to more closely reflect enrollment, which has continued to decline each school year. 

What's happening: AISD is aiming to reduce a projected $137.41 million budget shortfall to $63.26 million in FY 2025-26 through $26.41 million in cost-saving strategies, including a $16.9 million property sale.

In late January, the AISD board of trustees approved selling the former Brooke Elementary campus to Trammell Crow Corporation and High Street. The development is slated to serve as a multifamily apartment complex with market-rate and affordable units above ground-floor retail, an AISD spokesperson said.

In case you missed it: AISD's planned cost savings have been cut by $26 million due to the sale of a district property being delayed, Montgomery said. Community pushback and pending litigation has slowed a proposal to develop the former Rosedale School in a six-story apartment complex.

 

YOUR WEEKEND TO-DO LIST

Check out these weekend events across the metro area.

Kaleidospoke

Round Rock Express Fan Fest

March 20, 7-9:30 p.m.
Cedar Park

March 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Round Rock

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Main Street Spring Market

Spring Plant & Tree Sale

March 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; March 22, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Bastrop

March 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Buda

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Texas families now have until March 31 to apply for education savings accounts, judge rules

Texas families now have an additional two weeks to apply for the state’s new education savings account program, a Houston federal judge ruled March 17.

What's happening: U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett ordered the state comptroller’s office to extend the application deadline to March 31 over concerns that no Islamic private schools had been greenlit to accept state ESA funds. In two lawsuits filed in early March, four Muslim parents said they felt deterred from applying for education savings accounts because the Islamic schools they send their children to were not among the 2,200 schools authorized to participate in the program.

Parents previously had until 11:59 p.m. March 17 to apply for the program.

Latest update: In a March 17 news release, the comptroller’s office confirmed that applications would be accepted through March 31 in compliance with the judge’s order.

Over 229,000 students had applied for the $1 billion program as of March 17, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock said. The state will use a need- and income-based lottery system to determine who is accepted.

 

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