'We feel like Mike Miles is just destroying our schools,' one parent said. 'What he's doing in Meyerland, what we are fighting for today, is just unconscionable.'
"We feel like Mike Miles is just destroying our schools," one parent said. "What he's doing in Meyerland, what we are fighting for today, is just unconscionable."Parents in Texas' largest school district are pushing back against layoffs -- some a result of recent budget cuts.ABC13 reporter Courtney Carpenter spoke to parents protesting outside of Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School.
Though the district still has not said how many people will be losing their jobs, last week the board approved a nearly 20-page list of positions that could face layoffs -- including teachers, principals and custodians.Dozens of Houston ISD teachers' jobs are being cut, but district leaders insist the layoffs are unrelated to a $450 million budget gap.However, it comes at a time when the district faces a $450 million budget gap.
"We feel like Mike Miles is just destroying our schools. As an educator and a former educator with HISD, I've seen the good and the bad," parent Jada Stroud said. "What he's doing in Meyerland, what we are fighting for today, is just unconscionable."According to the district, the budget shortfall was caused by a combination of decreased student enrollment, COVID relief funds running out, and the state's unwillingness to raise public school funding.
"I heard he tried to take away our end of school field trip. He's trying to take away Mr. Sarabia. He's trying to turn us into a NES school," 7th grader Jonathan Stroud said.HISD walks back on promise of retention incentives to non-NES school teachers Retention incentives that were possibly promised to teachers at non-NES schools have been pulled by HISD due to budget constraints.Fort Bend ISD mother speaks out about her son's attack on classmate
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