Pugh Elementary has improved test scores for its predominantly Hispanic student...
Yet, his plan begins with a radical restructuring of just 28 schools and, for many parents, the list doesn’t make sense. Some of the schools have been improving. Some have high overall ratings from the state.The overwhelmingly Hispanic, high-poverty school in Denver Harbor is A-rated by the state and ranks in the top 20 percent of Texas elementaries, according to Children at Risk. Its achievement scores have steadily climbed. It has a magnet component.
“If a child can’t read,” he told the editorial board Friday, “I’m going to make sure they can read and my first priority is I’m going to make sure they can read in English.” “These teachers are being forced out,” parent Jessica Campos told us. She said her daughter, Sophie, had been elated that next year in fifth grade she’d have a favorite teacher from third grade, the one who still attended her softball games to cheer her on. Then came the takeover, and the news that teachers would have to reapply for their jobs, that they’d be encouraged to use a set curriculum from central office, that there’d be a new way of disciplining students.
Pugh families already felt they had the best. All but two teachers started last year with a bilingual or ESL certification. And after years of rotating principals, they finally had one who spoke Spanish and English and whose background was in bilingual education. She knew the strength of dual language programs, in which students learn a certain share of their content in one language and the rest in another.
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