Posted on 03/15/2023 2:19:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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 threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political.
The announcement, made by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s education commissioner, Mike Morath, amounts to one of the largest school takeovers ever in the U.S. It also deepens a high-stakes rift between Texas’ largest city, where Democrats wield control, and state Republican leaders, who have sought increased authority following election fumbles and COVID-19 restrictions.
In a letter to the Houston Independent School District, Morath said the Texas Education Agency will replace Superintendent Millard House II and the district’s elected board of trustees with a new superintendent and an appointed board of managers made of residents from within the district’s boundaries.
Morath said the board has failed to improve student outcomes while conducting “chaotic board meetings marred by infighting” and violating open meetings act and procurement laws. He accused the district of failing to provide proper special education services and of violating state and federal laws with its approach to supporting students with disabilities.
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Most of Houston’s school board members have been replaced since the state began making moves toward a takeover in 2019. House became superintendent in 2021.
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Race is also an issue because the overwhelming majority of students in Houston schools are Hispanic or Black. Domingo Morel, a professor of political science and public services at New York University, has studied school takeovers nationwide and said the political dynamics in Texas are similar to where states have intervened elsewhere.
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I’m sure the Leftists are furious.
Too bad.
Nice work there, governor.
Follow the money ... they are stealing everything that is not tied down. The children are getting educations on par with Chicago or the other progressive ghettos.
How can they do this? It’s a chocolate school district!
Yep, no work contracts are awarded and then kickbacks to government official are de rigueur.
Go to school? "We donz need ta go ta skool 'cause we smart 'nuff now, 'n weez gonna git rep'rationz".
Houston is a liberal cesspool made worse after getting Katrina cast offs.
I hate even driving through that city.
I drove through Houston last year. Didn’t stop of course till I got to Buc-cees in Katy.
I’d like to see this one’s position on the universal F$+k around/ Find out matrix
Good! The less power these maniacs have the better.
The kids are stealing everything too.
I’ll say.
I think the Department of Education’s days are numbered.
Trump is onto them, and he has already made some comments
that lead me to adopt this thought.
The Houston News Media is making it about race
“Liberal Democrats created this mess.”
People need to come to grips with the fact that the lefties don’t think any of this is a “mess”. It’s ingrained in their ideology (mental disorder), and all part of the plan / agenda.
That’s why they MUST do this. “Chocolate” people need a future that’s about something, too. Leftists only want them stuck in the morass of ignorance, dysfunction and mis-education that benefits leftists. Make that future available, and the “chocolate” people may become liberated, and the leftists lose more power. That’s why the left will fight tooth and nail against the state takeover, school choice, or the teaching of accurate history and civics. It spells their doom. They’re the real racists.
Preaching to the choir, I know.
I’d love to see it happen.
Of course it’s about race. Sh’queefa and lil Dingus are passed through the system until they graduate, yet neither one of them can read or write on a second grade level.
And of course, that’s Whitie’s fault.
Same here. I know CRT and the LGBTxyz stuff too is on the
chopping block. DeSantis may have said the same thing too.
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