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The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. [3] Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities in addition to some unincorporated areas .
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.
In 2014, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that the school's performance was insufficient and that it sought to revoke its charter. [49] By 2018, its charter had closed. [52] University of Houston Charter School; Victory Preparatory Academy (became an HISD charter in 2016, closed in 2018)
Kazi Shule (Houston) - Kazi Shule was an alternative school for pupils with behavioral problems. It opened as a middle school but became an elementary school in 2001 for the 2001-2002 school year. Closed May 2006. [74] YMCA Of Greater Houston Charter School (ended affiliation with HISD in 2004, [74] Houston)
Edgar Gregory-Abraham Lincoln Education Center [2] (GLEC) is a K-8 school located at 1101 Taft in the Fourth Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. [3] Gregory-Lincoln is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and has a fine arts magnet program that takes students in both the elementary and middle school levels.
[26] The HISD board terminated her after a 5-1 vote in June 2018. Simmons sued the district, stating that it discriminated against her being white and against her age. She also filed an appeal with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), although the agency hearing examiner's recommendations are not binding on HISD. [27]
Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School is a primary school located at 5100 Hazard Street in Houston, Texas, United States.A part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), the school, which was built during the 1920s, [2] is located in the Chevy Chase subdivision of the Boulevard Oaks neighborhood west of Rice University. [3]
In 2019 the Texas Education Agency (TEA) originally gave the school below an "A" due to the inclusion of the multiply impaired high school students in the testing statistics, but HISD appealed. TEA Commissioner Mike Morath agreed to the appeal and suggested that HISD get a new campus number to reflect this. Therefore Rogers has an "A" for 2019.