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NAACP doe not belong in schools
Mar 16, 2023, 6:25:02 AM3/16/23
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On 26 Feb 2022, William T <willy...@yahoomail.com> posted some
news:sve3p3$1rk3c$4...@news.freedyn.de:
> America’s Republicans Are Bitchslapping Democrats
The president of the Houston Federation of Teachers called it “the worst
news we can imagine for our students and families.” The head of the
NAACP's Houston chapter called it "a crime against public education."
Houston's mayor assigned it a letter grade: F.
But, amid accusations that Texas Republicans were using Wednesday's long-
awaited takeover of the Houston Independent School District to siphon
local control of public education and push a pro-voucher, pro-charter
school agenda, Gov. Greg Abbott insisted the lone motivation behind the
move is HISD's 187,000 schoolchildren.
"All that is completely separate from what is happening with HISD," Abbott
said of his legislative agenda. Instead, the takeover will make sure
Houston schools will “no longer be failing their students,” the governor
said.
“There has been a longtime failure by HISD and the victims of the failure
are the students,” Abbott said, adding that we need to "come together and
reinvent HISD in a way that will ensure that we are providing the best
possible education for those kids."
LIVE UPDATES: TEA seizes control of Houston ISD, Texas’ largest school
district
The 10:20 a.m. takeover announcement by the Texas Education Agency set off
a day of rallies and news conferences, with some vowing to continue the
fight against it. Four years in the making, the news hardly came as a
surprise as Mayor Sylvester Turner warned Houstonians earlier this month
he'd heard it was coming and the elected HISD board late last week voted
to ended its long-running legal battle to stave off state intervention.
Mike Morath, the TEA commissioner under Abbott, said the takeover is both
mandated by law and is the best option for getting the state's largest and
nation's eighth-largest school system back on track. The TEA will appoint
a board of managers and a superintendent to oversee the district after the
school year ends in June.
“Even with recent improvements and despite good intentions from many,
Houston ISD as a system continues to allow chronically low achievement in
multiple schools," Morath said. “State intervention is necessary.”
The state can take over HISD, officials said, because of Wheatley High
School's five consecutive failing ratings and a 2019 state investigation
that found HISD board members violated multiple laws. Also, a state-
appointed conservator had been put in place at Kashmere High School for
two consecutive school years because of low academic performance.
Better rating than Dallas ISD
The takeover of the B-rated district sparked outrage from Democrats,
education advocates and teachers in Houston and at the Capitol in Austin.
HISD scored 88 points on the state rating scale released last year. That's
higher than the second-largest district in Texas, Dallas ISD, which scored
86 points. Northside ISD in San Antonio, also among the top 10 largest
districts in the state, scored 85.
Those urban districts, however, aren't facing anywhere near the same level
of TEA scrutiny as HISD, which will become only the 16th district in Texas
history to see its local school board replaced by a state board of
managers.
<https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-
texas/education/article/houston-tea-takeover-hisd-17821731.php>
news:sve3p3$1rk3c$4...@news.freedyn.de:
> America’s Republicans Are Bitchslapping Democrats
The president of the Houston Federation of Teachers called it “the worst
news we can imagine for our students and families.” The head of the
NAACP's Houston chapter called it "a crime against public education."
Houston's mayor assigned it a letter grade: F.
But, amid accusations that Texas Republicans were using Wednesday's long-
awaited takeover of the Houston Independent School District to siphon
local control of public education and push a pro-voucher, pro-charter
school agenda, Gov. Greg Abbott insisted the lone motivation behind the
move is HISD's 187,000 schoolchildren.
"All that is completely separate from what is happening with HISD," Abbott
said of his legislative agenda. Instead, the takeover will make sure
Houston schools will “no longer be failing their students,” the governor
said.
“There has been a longtime failure by HISD and the victims of the failure
are the students,” Abbott said, adding that we need to "come together and
reinvent HISD in a way that will ensure that we are providing the best
possible education for those kids."
LIVE UPDATES: TEA seizes control of Houston ISD, Texas’ largest school
district
The 10:20 a.m. takeover announcement by the Texas Education Agency set off
a day of rallies and news conferences, with some vowing to continue the
fight against it. Four years in the making, the news hardly came as a
surprise as Mayor Sylvester Turner warned Houstonians earlier this month
he'd heard it was coming and the elected HISD board late last week voted
to ended its long-running legal battle to stave off state intervention.
Mike Morath, the TEA commissioner under Abbott, said the takeover is both
mandated by law and is the best option for getting the state's largest and
nation's eighth-largest school system back on track. The TEA will appoint
a board of managers and a superintendent to oversee the district after the
school year ends in June.
“Even with recent improvements and despite good intentions from many,
Houston ISD as a system continues to allow chronically low achievement in
multiple schools," Morath said. “State intervention is necessary.”
The state can take over HISD, officials said, because of Wheatley High
School's five consecutive failing ratings and a 2019 state investigation
that found HISD board members violated multiple laws. Also, a state-
appointed conservator had been put in place at Kashmere High School for
two consecutive school years because of low academic performance.
Better rating than Dallas ISD
The takeover of the B-rated district sparked outrage from Democrats,
education advocates and teachers in Houston and at the Capitol in Austin.
HISD scored 88 points on the state rating scale released last year. That's
higher than the second-largest district in Texas, Dallas ISD, which scored
86 points. Northside ISD in San Antonio, also among the top 10 largest
districts in the state, scored 85.
Those urban districts, however, aren't facing anywhere near the same level
of TEA scrutiny as HISD, which will become only the 16th district in Texas
history to see its local school board replaced by a state board of
managers.
<https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-
texas/education/article/houston-tea-takeover-hisd-17821731.php>
Governor Swill
Mar 17, 2023, 11:42:55 PM3/17/23
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problem that's the state's fault?
>Those urban districts, however, aren't facing anywhere near the same level
>of TEA scrutiny as HISD, which will become only the 16th district in Texas
>history to see its local school board replaced by a state board of
>managers.
>
><https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-
>texas/education/article/houston-tea-takeover-hisd-17821731.php>
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