Friday March 3,2023
“The Texas Education Agency’s rumored plan to take over HISD is outrageous at best and a thinly-veiled threat to democracy at worst. School boards are one of the purest expressions of American democracy. From election denial to serious proposals to take over elections in our county, to attempts to limit our budget, to now this attempt to take over the eighth largest school district in the nation, the state is taking politics too far and working to limit democracy, and the established rights of our citizens.
Most research shows that takeovers do not generate academic benefits. But that’s not what this is about. This is about democracy. The issues that TEA had with HISD in 2019 no longer apply in 2023. HISD is a school district that is moving upward. Wheatley High School is no longer failing, the school board TEA found an issue with no longer exists, and the superintendent is widely respected. The only constant is that teachers continue to overwhelmingly oppose a takeover.
I urge the state to rethink their disastrous plan to upend our schools and stop this latest show of political theater.”
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