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Old 03-09-2023, 05:09 PM
 
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HISD is a pretty wealthy district and has more than most districts in the state.

Resources is not an issue.
The state imposes limits on how much HISD can raise. And, the State was taking $150 million per year in Robin Hood money for a while. HISD is not overfunded at all
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Old 03-15-2023, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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They did it.
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Old 03-15-2023, 11:59 AM
 
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Is taking over the district really going to change anything? It seems like replacing the administrators isn't going to make the students perform any better to me. If the students are lazy, don't want to learn, don't want to be there, have parents who don't care and aren't involved, etc... it's not going to change anything. If the teachers are just showing up for a paycheck it's not going to change anything. I just don't know what they expect the outcome of a takeover to be here.
A number of years ago the state took over Wilmer Hutchins (Dallas County)........time has proved the action a very good move.

The HISD move seems more about long term miserable leadership at the school board level and similar. Not teachers nor local administration.
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Old 03-15-2023, 12:16 PM
 
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Funding is not the problem in the US. We spend more on education per student than almost any other industrialized country on the planet. Competition will significantly improve public education as they will finally be forced to right size their bloated, wasteful spending.
To that point per pupil the US is always 2 or 3 in the world in K-12 per pupil spending in PPP/real terms.
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Old 03-15-2023, 01:53 PM
 
Location: Houston
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the state created this mess - lets see how many charter schools are inside the HISD zones

between magnet schools, charter schools cherry picking folks how in the hell can you ever get ahead when your teaching folks who basically are the ones left behind with no options?
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Old 03-15-2023, 04:09 PM
 
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the state created this mess - lets see how many charter schools are inside the HISD zones

between magnet schools, charter schools cherry picking folks how in the hell can you ever get ahead when your teaching folks who basically are the ones left behind with no options?
If the state created this mess similar levels of underachievement and board chaos would be widespread across the state and that's not the case.


It's sad but society has allowed public K-12 underperform for so long many people who can are opting out many others already have.
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Old 03-15-2023, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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It's what's best for the district IMHO
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Old 03-15-2023, 04:42 PM
 
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Weird how the families were not organizing protests when the deficit grew and test scores were in the dumps.
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Old 03-15-2023, 07:16 PM
 
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It's what's best for the district IMHO
The TEA has no experience running schools

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Weird how the families were not organizing protests when the deficit grew and test scores were in the dumps.
Most people don't pay attention to HISD finances. Which were made worse by HISD having to send $150 million to the State under Robin Hood for several years.

The tests are pretty bad, and poorly designed. They need to be dumped as a waste of time and effort. That way, teachers would stop being forced to teach to the test and could teach an actual curriculum.
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Old 03-15-2023, 08:06 PM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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HISD has been nothing but a cash cow for local politicians, the takeover was long overdue. HISD schools have been failing for the last eight years, not a word from them politicians until now I wonder how many of them local politicians voted for HB 1842 & HB 1882 lol

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