There's more outcry from city leaders on the possible state takeover looming for Texas' largest school district, Houston ISD.
last year that a 2021 law - which went into effect after the case was first taken to court - allows for a state takeover. The law permits the TEA commissioner to replace a school board and its superintendent if one of its schools receives five consecutive years of failing grades.
Houston parent Zachary Foreman says the takeover coming in the middle of the spring semester is an unnecessary disruption after students have already had to go through months of online learning due to COVID-19 safety protocols.Foreman said he became an organizer with Houston Community Voices for Public Education a year after his first child was born because he wanted to have a say in the education she will receive.
"When the state takes over, we don't get to elect a board," Foreman said. "To me, it's not just the negative educational consequences; it's also like the everyday democratic ideas. I pay taxes, I live in this city. I should get a say in my kid's school." "When you had 100 schools that were Ds and Fs, guess what, where was the governor, where was TEA? Nobody was around," Johnson said. "But now that they've righted the ship, the course is right, now all of a sudden you want to come in and take it over for what reason? Takeovers have never worked."
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