If the Houston ISD Board of Managers goes along with Superintendent Mike Miles' recommendation, there will be no pre-K English-only class added at the district's Helms and Wharton schools next year. Miles said Monday he is going to recommend to the board that that the Helms and Wharton schools known...
If the Houston ISD Board of Managers goes along with Superintendent Mike Miles ' recommendation, there will be no pre-K English-only class added at the district's Helms and Wharton schools next year.
"We want a school that matches our bi-literate, bi-cultural family and Helms exceeds our expectations,"said parent Amanda DeLeon, at last week's meeting. She said HISD did not follow its own policies regarding timelines and communications with families and instead characterized it as a sudden decision.
"To hear the public comments just reinforced what we already knew in some ways," Miles said."So the recommendation I am making to the board is to keep Helms and Wharton largely the same. both programmatically, culturally . . . that means not adding an English only pre-K class." Asked how the whole thing became an issue to begin with, Miles says the administration and board has been examining how to best balance"competing interests." The competing interests are, of course, serving the students in a neighborhood versus students coming in seeking a special magnet program like dual language. This came into play as they seek to significantly the number of pre-K seats in the district.
The letter writers conceded that"We realize that our interest in opening new Pre-K options should have been communicated more effectively." Both schools have received A ratings from the Texas Education Agency in the past, something which several parents mentioned.
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