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HISD officials held a news conference after the publication of the story. During the conference, HISD asserted that The New York Times published the story in an attempt to discredit the Bush administration's new accountability standards for school districts nationwide, which were partly modeled after HISD's system.
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.
The 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m 2) facility was built for about $11.5 million from HISD Rebuild 2002 bond funds. Construction took place from early 2001 until 2002. It took overflow students from Brookline and Cornelius elementary schools. The school uses a pod system where multiple classrooms connect to each "pod". [143]
High School for Business and Economic Success, became an HISD charter named Leader's Academy High School for Business and Academic Success in 2007 and later merged into Victory Prep; Medical Center Charter School, a pre-kindergarten through 5th grade charter school, was located in the Westbury area.
The school has HISD's magnet program for Teaching Professions. The Port of Houston Maritime Academy was scheduled to come to Austin High School in August 2009. [3] The school is about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast from Downtown Houston. [4]
In April 2014 the HISD school board decided to rename remaining sports team names of Confederate and Native American mascots due to cultural insensitivity. Each school submitted its main choices to the HISD administration. The first mascot choice for the Westbury students was the "Huskies", replacing the "Rebels". [41]
George Cameron Scarborough High School is a secondary school located at 4141 Costa Rica in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77092. Part of the Houston Independent School District, Scarborough serves grades nine through twelve and has Houston ISD's Futures Academy.