Texas officials announced on Wednesday that they would be taking over Houston's public school district, which is the eighth-largest in the U.S., deepening existing tensions between local Democratic leaders and the Republican majority-held statehouse.
Texas officials announced on Wednesday that they would be taking over Houston's public school district, which is the eighth-largest in the U.S., deepening existing tensions between local Democratic leaders and the Republican majority-held statehouse.
"The district's approach to supporting students with disabilities also continues to violate state and federal law," wrote Morath, who referenced"significant systemic compliance problems, including an ongoing inability to provide special education services to students without delays."following the morning's announcement:
"Taking over the district now, despite all of this, is dead wrong," Reynolds said, adding that students and teachers would be"paying the price." This hostile takeover threatens to close schools, drive out teachers, and take away the power of local communities to elect their own leaders."The state takeover of HISD is not about public education — it's about political control of a 90 percent Black and brown student body in one of the country's most diverse cities. And it's not what our students and teachers need," continued the ACLU.
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