Turner calls on TEA: 'clarify your position' on an HISD state takeover

Houston ISD Superintendent Millard House II, left, and Mayor Sylvester Turner, right, talk with kindergartners at Bruce Elementary School, 510 Jensen Dr., Thursday, March 2, 2023, in Houston. The HISD superintendent and Mayor Sylvester Turner both read to the students as part of the Literacy Now's 3rd Annual Houston Reads Day.

House is expected to speak at a school board meeting Thursday night to address the ongoing rumors that the TEA is going to takeover HISD as early as Monday.

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