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.

  • electerrific [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It's because the public schools fell down on the job over, and over, and over, and over. With bureaucrats, taking their influence away is the only thing they understand. The kids don't really have anything to do with it.

    I remember one of those old-fashioned "Demotivator" posters with a picture of Khan from Star Trek II with his face bloodied when he's trying to self-destruct the Reliant and take Kirk out with him and the caption "Spite: it's not about me winning, it's about you losing"