Mike Morath, Texas Education Commissioner, speaks at the Greater Houston Partnership's State of Education event held at the Hyatt Regency, 1200 Louisiana St.,Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, in Houston.It's finally happening. The state of Texas appears poised to take over the biggest school district in the state, Houston ISD, in a matter of days., and this editorial board, that the Texas Education Agency could announce the radical change in governance as early as next week.
"Can the state just take over Harris County?" County Judge Lina Hidalgo asked in a radio interview on KUHF's Houston Matters Wednesday morning when asked about takeover reports.We generally regard TEA Commissioner Mike Morath as well meaning, but the man who appointed him, Abbott, has big political ambitions and desperately needs to build name ID to register on the presidential hopeful Richter Scale.
The track record on big school takeovers isn’t great. Across the country, they generally “don’t deliver promised results,” according to, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University – Newark, who wrote a book on the topic. They do, however, “have significant negative political and economic consequences for communities, which overwhelmingly are communities of color.
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