Houston ISD’s state-appointed board restricted access to a public meeting where major changes were announced. Local residents were frustrated since the meeting covered the restructuring of 28 campuses and cuts to HISD’s administration. via Hou_Landing
Kourtney Revels, at center, the mother of a third-grade student at Houston ISD's Elmore Elementary School, confronts district staff limiting public access to a school board meeting Thursday at HISD headquarters in northwest Houston., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath replaced HISD’s elected trustees on June 1 with the appointed board, part of sweeping sanctions against the district primarily for failing to raise student achievement at Wheatley High School. The remaining attendees unable to fit inside the boardroom were pointed to a separate overflow room down the hall, where over 100 chairs faced a screen playing a livestream of the meeting.
“Unfortunately, I had this whole great thing to say, and then I got put in this room where I can’t look at you in the face and actually say the things that I need to say,” Yarbrough-Camarena said during her public comment. Miles, who joined the meeting nearly an hour after its start, was not present for public comment. Miles said he does not attend the meeting until public comment is over because it’s a “good way for the focus to be on the board.”
Attendee Stephan Hester was signed up to speak at the meeting but said he was escorted out of the building by police for protesting outside the boardroom doors.
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