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In March 2023, Florida's school choice program expanded by removing the income-eligibility requirements that were part of the previous programs. This made all students eligible for taxpayer-backed vouchers as of the 2023-2024 school year. [2] Florida's public school options include magnet schools, academies, charter schools and other programs.
A 32% tax increase championed by HISD superintendent Frank Petruzielo funded the new magnet program which opened in August 1992. [8] The new principal started work that month. Donald R. McAdams, a former HISD school board member and author of Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!:
Mance Park Middle School. Mance Park Middle School (grades 6-8) Originally built as Huntsville High School in 1950. This campus then became Huntsville Junior High. Later, the campus changed to Mance Park Middle School. Today it is a middle school campus with approximately 1300 students per year attending. [citation needed]
HISD board members wanted to improve the district's perceived standing - among the best of urban districts but still below average overall - without installing too much radical change, and they felt that a stronger personality was needed to check Gayle Fallon, the head of the Houston Federation of Teachers.
Houston ISD's "West Region," which includes Walnut Bend and Revere, had about one-fifth of Houston ISD's schools but contained more than half of the 5,500 Katrina evacuees in Houston schools. At the start of the 2006-2007 school year, around 2,900 Hurricane Katrina evacuees were still enrolled in Houston ISD schools.
Prior to July 1, 2018, the school served as its own self-contained secondary school. Since June 2018, Jordan is a regional career education hub for students enrolled at other HISD high schools. When it was its own high school it had a program for high school-aged deaf pupils. The center was named after politician Barbara Jordan.
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday. The ...