HISD Lowers Tax Rate, Goes Ahead With its District of Innovation Plans and Tosses a Teacher From its Board Meeting

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When Espinosa refused to relinquish her time at the mic, after two warnings from Board President Audrey Momanaee she got a personal escort from HISD police at Momanaee's direction. The board and Miles briefly retreated into a back room following the outburst and departure of Espinoza. In regards to this, the Board of Managers announced the names of the District of Innovation committee members, without giving out any information about who these people are. Other than board member Janette Garza Lindner and HISD deputy chief of staff Jessica Morffi, the other names include Edgardo Colon, Lauren Fontaine, Bill Horwath, Uche Ndefo and Theresa Tran. The HISD press office said they would be getting more information out about these people Friday.

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