Karla Mattox, center, a member of the Houston Educational Support Personnel union, speaks during a TEA community meeting demanding that Alejandro Delgado, TEA Deputy Commissioner, Office of Operations, answer their questions. To her left is Wretha Thomas, who is also a HESP member. The TEA hosted the first of four community meetings where people can come ask questions and learn more about the state takeover of HISD at Westbury High School on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 in Houston.
To the first question, she got a rushed and incomplete answer. “If a child’s school runs successfully, we don’t anticipate any impact,” Alejandro Delgado, deputy commissioner for the TEA, told the crowd. They wanted to know how chronic underfunding would be addressed and how a school bus driver without an aide would be helped. “Our expectation is that the new Board of Managers and the superintendent are going to be responsible for supporting that concern,” Delgado said.
Much of the information he did share about the application process for that board has already been widely reported online, worsening the impatience of parents, employees and other community members. Audience members clap for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as she made a surprise visit and spoke as the TEA hosted the first of four community meetings where people can come ask questions and learn more about the state takeover of HISD at Westbury High School on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 in Houston.stay engaged at the least and perhaps join the 138 who have already applied for the board of managers job and that they have real control if appointed.
We threw tea overboard years ago, seems like decades even.
Where was all this passion when HISD was failing for the past few decades…? Y’all didn’t care then but y’all care now?
Pretty sure you let them explain why TEA is taking over . What they are looking to do with troubled school districts?
How can someone answer questions, when everyone is talking or screaming. It a form of aggressive communication and behavior. Some people don’t like all that.
Sometimes I don’t understand our people. Your kid’s school are failing and you’d rather keep the status quo?
Yes. Keep it up. There will be plenty of low paying jobs for the graduates of HISD keepHISDshitty
Thank my God, the community is alive, fight, fight, fight..
Just imagine what will happen when TEA imposes 'taxation without representation' on the people of HISD and directs their appointees to turn the district's schools over to charter school operators. They ain't seen nothing yet.
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