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HISD has an online high school offering regular, AP, and credit-recovery courses at its virtual school. For grades 3-12 offers online schooling through Texas Connections Academy @ Houston , which is operated under contract by Connections Academy , a Maryland -based company which works with public and other schools to provide online education.
Yearly requests for E-Rate funding almost triple the FCC's $2.25 billion limit. [1]: 7 At the beginning of 2005, over 100,000 schools had participated in the program.[2]: 58 In 2003, nearly half of the funding went to schools where more than half of the students receive reduced price lunches.
During the 2022-2023 school year, 1,168 students were enrolled at Northside. 94% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. 86.1% Hispanic American 12.8% African American
One HISD board member, Jolanda Jones, spoke against the deal, arguing that it was selling out the rights to name a school and that HISD was not giving attention to the non-specialty schools in the district. Jones and Diana Davila were the only board members to vote against the deal.
Houston ISD grants school bus transportation to any Houston ISD resident attending his or her zoned school or attending a magnet program who lives 2 miles (3.2 km) or more away from the campus (as measured by the nearest public roads) or must cross treacherous obstacles in order to reach the campus. Certain special education students are also ...
That year, the HISD school board was to vote on whether to close Dodson Elementary. Terry Grier, the HISD superintendent, argued that Dodson needs to close so another school will be located there while its permanent facility is under construction. [194] On Thursday March 13, 2014, the HISD board voted to close Dodson Elementary 5-4. [193]
The Austin Independent School District is providing free breakfast and lunch for all students at 77 schools through the federally funded Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program.
Police arrested a 16-year-old described by HISD officials as a "disturbed freshman." [11] In December 1991, Milby was one of the largest high schools in Texas, with 3,617 students. Due to the overcrowding, by that month Houston ISD trustees approved a plan to open a new high school in September 1995 instead of in 1997. [12]