TX: Mayor Sylvester Turner expects the state will soon take over Houston ISD

[RandySF]

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Wednesday morning that he has been told that the Texas Education Agency plans to take over the Houston Independent School District as early as next week.

The biggest school district in Texas and the agency that oversees it have been locked in a legal fight for years, with the TEA raising concerns over Houston ISD’s school board management and low scores in one high school.

“I’m talking to legislators, and what they’re saying to me is that the state intends to take over the district, replacing the entire board, replacing the superintendent,” Turner said at a City Council meeting. “I find that totally alarming.”

The Texas Education Agency and Houston ISD did not immediately respond to requests for comment.




https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/01/tea-houston-isd-takeover/

[Freethinker65]

1. Replacing the curriculum and the textbooks as well?

Reducing the numbers and qualifications of teachers, reducing the pay and benefits for public education employees, increasing the class sizes for students?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. The Texas Education Agency has been threatening this for a while

HISD has too many schools with minorities in them and so the state thinks that they need to decide what is best for these schools