taking over the state’s largest school district.
The TEA has been actively pursuing running the Houston Independent School District since 2019, due to several consecutive years of low academic performance at Phyllis Wheatley High School, which is historically Black. Janice Thomas is a class of 1986 graduate of Wheatley. Up until two months ago, she was the president of the school’s alumni association. She currently runs a non-profit that focuses on education in low-performing schools.“I really don’t have a stance as [to] whether I’m for the TEA or not. My stance is, what can we do to improve the outcome of our students? We have a lot of students that are being left out. They are falling behind,” she said.
Jackie Anderson is the president of the Houston Federation of Teachers and says a state takeover is not ideal because the voters already made the decision of who they wanted at the helm of the district. “When you have a board of managers that’s been placed by a Commissioner that was also appointed, then where do we go but to our state legislators when we have questions about what’s going on in the district?” she asked. “You make that type of move, democracy has no place in our society.”“Well, what I actually think is going to happen, [is] we’re gonna have a mass exodus of teachers. They are not going to hang around in HISD. They’re going to leave and we’ve always had a shortage of teachers.
HISD is toast, hopefully everyone in charge gets the boot
It's a witch hunt by Abbott,Patrick&Republicans 2get rid of minorities running school districts,city&county positions in Texas.They keep targeting Harris county on elections&HISD all run by minorities It's old white men desperate 2stay in power by cheating,lying&a Jim Crow agenda
That would be great
Keep voting Democrat and watch what happens..all those corrupt democrats at HISD is what did this school district in..these people can’t just steal a little bit of stuff..NO..they gotta steal everything that they can put they’re filthy hands on..DemocratsAreTheProblem
Maybe the kids will start getting a good education.
It needs to take it over
This is BS! The 'agency' under Abbott's regime wants to break up urban districts because they're the only ones powerful enough to fight their anti public ed agenda. And because they are economically disadvantaged minorities & Abbott's racist cabal would like to marginalize them.
This will be an epic disaster and if you think it will stop with HISD..right wing billionaires from West Texas have taken over Republicans in txlege (docu Deep In The Pockets Of Texas). They primary any reasonable Republican. Watch it. It is chilling. They are behind this.
This should absolutely happen. Should have happened years ago. Hisd is a cesspool of corruption.
Keep Abbott's Austin out of our schools !