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Nepotism in the admissions process Remember in high school, when your best friend got accepted to your first choice college because her parents went there, but you were denied? This preferential ...
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 ...
The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, or TAPPS, is an organization headquartered in the Lone Star Tower at Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas. [1] It was formerly headquartered at the Salado Civic Center in Salado, Texas .
Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) is an agency of the government of Harris County, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area; it is headquartered in Northside district in Houston. As of 2018 it handles the enrollment of around 200 students with special needs. [1] Under Texas law it is not a school district. [1]
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]
An NBC News review of school board elections in 20 suburban Texas school districts revealed more than 40 candidates running campaigns focused, at least in part, on culture war issues that have ...
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First Black member of the Houston Independent School District board (1958-1967) Hattie Mae Whiting White (May 22, 1916 – July 30, 1993) was an American educator and politician. As the first Black member of the Houston Independent School District 's board in 1958, she was also the city's first Black elected official in the 20th century.