Jacob Carpenter, reporter for the Houston Chronicle, tweeted that the state education department plans to strip the Houston school board of its authority because of the persistently low scores of one school.
@ChronJacob
BREAKING: Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath has notified Houston ISD that he plans to strip power from the district’s elected board and appoint a new governance team, the result of Wheatley High School’s chronically low performance and findings of trustee misconduct.
Morath previously served on the Dallas school board. He was a software developer, never an educator.
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What will the people of Houston do?
Democracy is an “ACTION” word.
The people of Houston must rise up and protest this suppression of democracy and local control. Takeover is unnecessary, and it never works. How can an entire large system get taken over because one school has poor scores? This is a hostile takeover that intends to put transfer public money into private hands before the public has a chance to notice.
The state claims there is corruption regarding the awarding of contracts. In this article it claims that the takeover is a temporary measure. When the problems are addressed, the control of the district will revert back to the elected board. I don’t have a lot of faith that we can trust what conservatives say. https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/06/tea-take-over-houston-isd-school-board-replace-superintendent/
The state has been itching to take control of Houston. The state education department does not have the capacity to fix any problems, not even its own.
They can’t claim corruption for the entire district on the basis of the low scores of one school. Well, I guess they can in bizarro world. Is it too much to assume that this one school serves a low economic population?