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The Houston Independent School District takeover is a 2023 takeover of the state's largest school district by the Texas Education Agency, replacing the superintendent and elected board of trustees with a board of managers and a new superintendent appointed by the Texas commissioner of education.
KIPP Academy (1994) (west Houston) KIPP Academy West (2015) (far west Houston) KIPP CONNECT Middle School (2014) KIPP Courage College Prep at Landrum Middle School(2012-2024) (Spring Branch), at Landrum Middle School of the Spring Branch Independent School District [8] KIPP Intrepid (2008) KIPP Journey (2019) (west Houston)
High School for Law and Justice (HSLJ), formerly the High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (LE/CJ in short), is a high school located in Houston, Texas, United States. The school serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The current campus is in East Downtown. [1]
Mountains of research show that drug education strategies of the 1980s and 90s were ineffective. Schools are hoping an updated approach will have more of an impact. D.A.R.E. didn’t work.
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
[24] [29] It opened in fall 1968 as a part of the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District (WHISD). [30] It closed in 2005 due to the closure of WHISD. Dallas ISD, which took over the WHISD schools, had renovated Kennedy-Curry and expanded it by almost 60,000 square feet (5,600 m 2). Funds from the 2008 $1.35 billion bond were used to ...
As of 2011 250 students are in grades 6–8. In 2011 Children at Risk ranked the Pilgrim middle school as the best comprehensive middle school program in Houston. [7] The Rusk School (Houston) (magnet for K-8, will become 6-8 only) Rusk is in the Second Ward, [8] at Garrow and Paige Streets, near Settegast Park. [9]
In 2011 the Texas Education Agency ordered the North Forest Independent School District (NFISD) to close, pending approval from the U.S. Justice Department. NFISD would be merged into HISD. [31] On June 13, 2013, the HISD board voted unanimously to absorb the North Forest Independent School District (NFISD). [32] HISD won the Broad Prize in ...