What do you think of the proposed budget cuts to HISD magnet program? (Houston: low income, home)

[hbcu]

HISD needs to have the gonads and say...you go where you live

how can the bad schools get good if the good kids in a bad zone keep leaving?

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by hbcu

HISD needs to have the gonads and say...you go where you live

how can the bad schools get good if the good kids in a bad zone keep leaving?

For reasons explored in the Rice article, the first won't happen. Instead, HISD can police fake address-users and expose those attending Dawson from Sunnyside. It can order capacity locks on Bellaire and Lamar and massively rezone apartments (but not houses) from Bellaire to Lee and Sharpstown and Lamar to Yates

[hbcu]

HISD provides transportation from Sunnyside to Bellaire daily...they created the problem

It's hard in HISD to track down addresses as the city is so big and kids can live in all types of conditions...remember the family living in a storage facility a few years back?

You got kids living in fleabag motels, group homes, etc.

[Meyerland]

It's only 3 million dollars of savings in a 6 BILLION dollar budget. You can't just cut 100,000$ Or more from a schools budget on a whim. It's ridiculous.

Their attitude....Let's raise the taxes on everybody, overcrowd the campuses, make promises to incoming kinder families, and then slash the funding.

Umm...what?

Carnegie would lose over 350,000$ In a single year. There would have to be multiple staff cuts there. How can a school recover from that?

[Meyerland]

Update: HISD has been meeting this morning about planning the budget for next year. This is a workshop only. According to this plan,they are still cutting part of the magnet program, but they have reinstated the vanguard funding.

This has not been voted on yet. The proposed cuts have been greatly reduced in the new plan.

The STEM schools are proposed to lose around 50$ PUA off the last budget plan. It was proposed to be 150$ PUA and now it's 100$ PUA.

I have heard that Red elementary is losing the most funding now.

vanguard funding is proposed to be reinstated for all vanguard students regardless of the school they attend. ( neighborhood or vanguard magnet)

Language magnets like Kolter will get 100$ PUA instead of the previous recommendation of 50$. They previously got 340$ PUA so this is still a deep cut. They do have a pretty big vanguard element, so that might make up for this shortfall.

We'll know more after the budget becomes official and they have a vote.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by hbcu

HISD provides transportation from Sunnyside to Bellaire daily...they created the problem

It's hard in HISD to track down addresses as the city is so big and kids can live in all types of conditions...remember the family living in a storage facility a few years back?

You got kids living in fleabag motels, group homes, etc.

Isn't that transport for people who honestly say where they live? You could have HISD reduce athletic transfers.

[KatieKennedy]

Here is an article summarizing the Magnet cuts particularly as these cuts could impact Kolter Elementary. Also a good chart summarizing the cuts and their impact on various schools. Village News - 06/10/2014 digital edition

[EasilyAmused]

Good. All magnets should be cut. Provide quality education at every school..

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Good. All magnets should be cut. Provide quality education at every school..

I think that would make more people move to the burbs. If I were you I'd read the What Went Wrong with Rice article: What Went Wrong at the Rice School? | Houston Press - Poor parents see their violent neighborhood schools as a problem

[DSL_PWR]

I think the proposed cuts are a start. The first cuts will not be enough and more cuts will be needed.