The new state-installed superintendent of the Houston ISD, Mike Miles, said his message to teachers and parents is about hope as well as the need for dramatic change.
Sandra Velazquez, a bilingual elementary school teacher, is not convinced.
Miles, who developed these ideas as CEO of a charter school network, has said he wants to eventually expand his “New Education System” to 150 of the district’s 274 schools, whose nearly 200,000 students are more than 80% Latino and Black. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says the libraries plan is creating a prison-like atmosphere in spaces usually associated with learning.The Texas Education Agency cited chronically low academic scores at one high school and allegations of misconduct by the district’s elected trustees when it announced the takeover.
Such takeovers generally are not a silver bullet for improvement, said Beth Schueler, who teaches education and public policy at the University of Virginia. Her research published in 2021 analyzed before-and-after test results for all 35 state takeovers from 2011-2016 and found, on average, there is no evidence takeovers generate academic benefits.Velazquez said she and many of her colleagues are afraid to speak up and would rather “keep their head down, keep their jobs.
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