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Less than a year after returning local control to North Forest, TEA revoked the academic accreditation of the district for the 2011-2012 school year and ordered the district's closure and annexation. [38] After years of appeals, the district was annexed into Houston ISD in July 2013. [39]
Northwest Preparatory Academy (opened 1998, TEA sought closure in 2014) - In 2014 it had 300 students, and at the time it had two campuses. In a two year period to 2014 the state gave the school a failing academic ranking, and the state deemed its 2011 and 2013 finances substandard. [2] 7-12 schools
The TEA estimated that the district would have a $17 million debt by August 2008. [44] On July 31, 2008, Wayne Dolcefino of ABC 13 KTRK in Houston reported on a several months' investigation of the school district for malfeasance. His discoveries included misappropriation of federal grants by the Special Education Director, Dr. Ruth Watson, who ...
Velina Hasu Houston wrote her play "Tea," about the experiences of Japanese women who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s, while she was pursuing her MFA at UCLA. Hero Theatre revived the play ...
A series of reports in 2016 by the Houston Chronicle found that since at least 2004, TEA denied special education services to thousands of students, prompting a federal investigation. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] State education officials set an arbitrary limit of 8.5% for the number of students who could receive special education services.
Velina Hasu Houston (born Velina Avisa Hasu Houston on May 5, 1957) [1] is an American writer. Primarily an internationally acclaimed playwright [ 2 ] and librettist, she is also a published poet, screenwriter for film and television, [ 3 ] and essayist.
Kashmere High School is a secondary school in Houston, Texas that serves grades 9 through 12; it is a part of the Houston Independent School District.It is located in the Trinity Gardens neighborhood, [3] and its namesake is the nearby Kashmere Gardens neighborhood.
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