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The Texas Education Agency has taken over seven other school districts since 2000, and 15 in the past three decades, replacing their elected boards with boards of managers appointed by the commissioner. [49] [50] TEA has also intervened through appointments such as conservators or monitors in at least 51 school districts. [51]
The district used TEA funding to renovate the campuses. Isa Dadoush, the former HISD general construction manager, said that the poor condition of the NFISD campuses was proof that the takeover was the best outcome. [1] HISD began holding summer school for NFISD students, and extended the coverage of its summer free meals program to North ...
F. Mike Miles is the current superintendent of Houston Independent School District. He previously served as the superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) from July 1, 2012 to June 25, 2015, [1] and previously in Colorado Springs. Miles was a ranger in the United States Army and worked in the U.S. State Department. [2]
More. HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of ...
Sam, the HISD spokesperson, told NBC News earlier this month that the district will cut the special education contract jobs, including disability experts, to focus on hiring full-time special ...
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. [3] Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities in addition to some unincorporated areas.
Abelardo Saavedra, then superintendent of HISD, described SHHS was "close" to receiving an acceptable rating. In August 2006, the school learned that it again got an unacceptable rating from the Texas Education Agency. HISD threatened to close SHHS. SHHS was not closed and it received another unacceptable rating from the TEA in 2007.
Since March 2012, during a review of issues not specified, the TEA withheld the accreditation of the Varnett school system. [12] In August 2013 the TEA released a report stating that the school system conducted business out of the view of the public, had conflicts of interest, and spent millions of dollars in manners it considered questionable.