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YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. [1] is a network of public, open-enrollment charter schools located in Greater Houston. Its headquarters are located at its Southside campus. [2] [3] The YES program is a university-preparatory program for grades K-12. [4]
The number of students in public schools in Houston increased from 5,500 in 1888 to over 8,850 in 1927. [8] In the 1920s, the school district expanded its infrastructure to accommodate a growing number of black students. There were 8,293 students in Houston's schools for black students in the 1924-1925 school year. [9]
The University of Houston is a nationally recognized Tier One research university and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. [7] [8] [9] The third-largest university in Texas, the University of Houston has nearly 44,000 students on its 667-acre campus in southeast Houston as of 2017. [10]
It has 735 students as of 2015. 87% of the students are designated as low income, and the student body is majority Hispanic. The school occupies a three-story 1920s building. The school uses the International Baccalaureate program. [46] Hogg's student body became mostly racial minority in the late 1970s. [34]
Curtin University was founded in 1966 as the Western Australian Institute of Technology. [18] The four people who drove its establishment were Lesley Phillips, who was Superintendent of Technical Education from 1943 to 1948; George Hayman, [a] who held the same position from 1948 [19] to 1962; [20] T. L. Robertson, Director of Education; and Haydn Williams, Director of Technical Education.
Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering ...
A 2020 investigation by the Houston Chronicle found that the school district's suspension rate increased dramatically during the first year of the takeover, and continued to increase to the point where students were suspended at a rate six times the average for Texas school districts. During the 2018-2019 school year, Beaumont ISD had a rate of ...
Curtin Singapore is the Singaporean campus of Curtin University, a public university in Australia. [4] It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in healthcare , computational sciences , commerce and communications with plans to expand to science and engineering .