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Houston ISD trustees and administrators who'd hoped to avoid a Texas Education Agency takeover of the district got some sad Friday afternoon news today. While far from a final determination, when the Texas Supreme Court voted to lift the temporary injunction that kept the TEA Commissioner from pursuing his plan...
In our original story we said none of the board members under fire in 2019 remain on the HISD board. Trustee Elizabeth Santos remains on the board from that time and a TEA investigation showed she may have violated the Open Meetings Act along with four others. The Houston Press regrets the error.Houston ISD trustees and administrators who'd hoped to avoid a Texas Education Agency takeover of the district got some sad Friday afternoon news today.
A change in the Texas Education Code, enables the TEA commissioner to become directly involved in a district with a school that has consistently failed to meet Texas academic standards. His choices are to close that campus or to replace the board of trustees. only one of the board members under fire in 2019 remain on the HISD board. And that individual campus ratings have improved at many of the schools throughout the district.
In Friday's opinion, Justice Jane Bland, referred to even more recent education code changes adopted by the last session of the Legislature which specifically addressed the challenges raised by HISD in its temporary injunction appeal. That being the law, she said,"we hold that the District failed to demonstrate that the Commissioner and his conservator’s planned conduct violates the law.
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