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Local students receive coats from JBSA partners
December 3, 2020 — Students at Wilshire Elementary School, in San Antonio’s Northeast Independent School District, will be a little warmer this winter thanks to volunteers from the 502nd Force Support Group and the 106th Signal Brigade at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, who collected coats, socks and toys to give needy children... MORE

A student at Wilshire Elementary School, in San Antonio’s Northeast Independent School District, receives a coat and gifts from Lisa De La Rosa, a family specialist at the school, during a ceremony Nov. 30. The event was held virtually this year due to COVID-19.

Build-A-Backpack helps families overcome ‘money crunch’ when school starts
July 3, 2019 — Members of the Joint Base San Antonio community will soon have an opportunity to provide schoolchildren with the tools they need to start the new school year. During the week of July 22-26, the JBSA Child & Youth Education Services School Liaison Office’s Build-A-Backpack program will accept backpacks filled with school supplies for distribution to students in financial need... MORE

The Joint Base San Antonio Child & Youth Education Services School Liaison Office will help military families in financial need the week of July 22-26 when it accepts backpacks filled with school supplies for children in those families.

AF JROTC course now offered to Lackland ISD students
March 30, 2018 — A crosstown agreement between Lackland and Northside Independent School Districts will now allow students attending Lackland ISD at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to enroll in its Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corp courses starting in fall 2018... MORE

Lackland Independent School District students listen as John Jay High School JROTC senior instructor, Col. John Lopardi, explains the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program during a field trip. A crosstown agreement between Lackland and Northside ISD will now allow Lackland ISD students at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to enroll in its JROTC courses starting in the fall 2018.

Lackland ISD selected as Go Public Cool Schools winner
March 28, 2018 — The Lackland Independent School District at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, one of 16 San Antonio-area ISDs, was recognized for the month of March as the Go Public Cool Schools winner contest... MORE

The Lackland Independent School District at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, one of 16 San Antonio-area ISDs, was recognized for the month of March as the Go Public Cool Schools winner contest.The Go Public Cool Schools program, part of the Go Public initiative, is a marketing strategy Bexar County schools uses to share the special work that public schools do.

School Liaison Office provides resources for school rezoning process
March 23, 2018 — The JBSA Military Child Education Program-School Liaison Office, which serves the needs of 35,000-plus military connected students, K-12, who are enrolled in 28 school districts in the San Antonio area and within JBSA, provides resources and information to service members about the process school districts use to redraw school attendance lines... MORE

The JBSA Military Child Education Program-School Liaison Office, which serves the needs of 35,000-plus military connected students, K-12, who are enrolled in 28 school districts in the San Antonio area and within JBSA, provides resources and information to service members about the process school districts use to redraw school attendance lines.