Texas Education Agency announces takeover of the Houston Independent School District | Houston Public Media
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The state-appointed managers will hold immense power. They can control the budget, school closures, collaborations with charter networks, policies around curriculum and library books, as well as hiring or firing the superintendent, among other important decisions. 

This is bad. The state board is full of the worst conservative ghouls imaginable, the very same people who rewrote history textbooks to say workers instead of slaves. Houston ISD has over 200,000 students.

  • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    They’re run for profit and aren’t administered by any government, they’re operated by interest groups who have a contract with the state. They’re effectively what @MaoistLandlord called them, private schools funded with tax money.

    there are public charter schools administered by local school districts but none of this debate is about them.