Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath informed the Houston Independent School District that its school board would be stripped of its authority and a board of managers appointed by Morath would temporarily take control.
In a Wednesday letter, Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath informed the school district that the Houston school board would be stripped of its authority and a board of managers appointed by Morath would temporarily take control of the school district due to low academic achievement at several district schools, most notably Wheatley High School, where only 27% of students met the state's grade standards in the 2021-2022 school year.
"In the time since that injunction was imposed, a former board president, the district’s chief operating officer, and four district administrators either pled guilty or were indicted for illegal activity related to a bribery scheme," Morath said, referring to a criminal case that saw former Houston ISD Board of Education President Rhonda Skillern-Jones and several other district administrators plead guilty to federal corruption charges.
The state takeover of the school district was panned by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the Texas Federation of Teachers, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. "The state takeover of HISD is not about public education — it's about political control of a 90% black and brown student body in one of the country's most diverse cities," the legal group tweeted."And it's not what our students and teachers need."
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