The Texas Education Agency appears poised to take over Houston ISD, the state's largest...
The first slide had the following question: On what authority did the Commissioner of Education appoint a Board of Managers in HISD?
"The Board of Managers is being appointed on two legal grounds. First, under prior law a Board of Managers is being appointed because one of the district's campuses received unacceptable academic accountability ratings for more than five consecutive years, requiring action to either close the campus or appoint a Board of Managers to govern the district.
The documents have since been removed from the website, but the Houston Chronicle kept screenshots of the PowerPoint.Here is a list of the
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