HISD board votes to move forward with more staff terminations following overnight meeting

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The Houston ISD board voted to officially move forward with more terminations in the district.

Of the more than 200 people who signed up for the meeting’s open comment period, many spoke out against the recent forced resignation of numerous district principalsThe board voted in the early morning hours to move ahead with the vote for more terminations and not renewing certain contracts. Eight board members voted in favor with one abstention.

“If we could’ve avoided all of this, I would’ve wanted to do that for my community and for myself but the manner in which it all happened I had to come and defend myself,” she said. We spoke to Berry on Thursday, and she said the request stipulated that she could never work at HISD again or take legal action against the district. She explained that she was written up for expressing concern about student privacy and IEPs shortly before she received the request to resign.

 

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