HISD State Takeover
Posted 11-13-2019 at 01:43 PM by pilotpair
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Originally Posted by SugLandDAd
HISD has many problems, and its not outrageous that the state would want to intervene. I didn't have any confidence that the HISD Board was addressing it's problems in an efficient and effective manner, but was more fighting over turf, and what they could get from the system for their local political "side".
TEA has its own problems, and is itself under resourced, and also heavily influenced by state politics, and I don't see that TEA , in taking over, will be any more efficient and effective in making progress in solving longstanding problems at HISD.
I would hate to see TEA use this as an opportunity to bring in more for-profit charter schools. If so, as always in Texas, businesses and political donors will win, and the children will lose.
TEA has its own problems, and is itself under resourced, and also heavily influenced by state politics, and I don't see that TEA , in taking over, will be any more efficient and effective in making progress in solving longstanding problems at HISD.
I would hate to see TEA use this as an opportunity to bring in more for-profit charter schools. If so, as always in Texas, businesses and political donors will win, and the children will lose.
If parents hadn't lost faith in public schools, we wouldn't have charter schools.
Parents - not business and political donors - make the choice to send a child to a charter school and if charter schools weren't performing better than public schools, they wouldn't make any money.
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