Houston ISD parents and students chastised Superintendent Mike Miles during a Thursday board meeting for championing “data over anecdotes” as justification for his sweeping reforms. The critics said…
Read more HISD Students and Parents Challenge Mike Miles on Data Versus Anecdotes – Houston PressDemetrius Lott has wanted to be a football coach since he was a child. He has a four-year degree in physical education but he’s missing a certificate that…
Read more The Ins and Outs of Texas Increasingly Using Uncertified Teachers – Houston PressRegardless of who is elected to the Houston ISD board of trustees in November, they won’t have any power — but both major political parties are endorsing candidates in the nonpartisan…
Read more It May Be Just a Formality, But Harris County Political Parties Are Backing Houston ISD Trustee CandidatesA federal judge ruled last week that 11 Texas school districts, including Cypress-Fairbanks, Fort Bend, and Houston ISDs, don’t have to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom…
Read more Paxton Says Houston ISD Has to Display Ten Commandments Despite Federal Judge’s RulingPublic school teachers in 11 Texas districts, including three in the Greater Houston area, are blocked from displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom despite a state law…
Read more Judge Blocks Ruling That Ten Commandments Must Be Displayed in School ClassroomsA veteran head boys basketball coach and two assistant principals — all in the Houston ISD — were among five people charged with running a teacher certification cheating…
Read more Investigators Say a Teacher Certification Cheating Ring Headed Up By an HISD Coach Made More Than a Million DollarsEighty two degrees. When Houston ISD classrooms hit that mark, that’s when the kids inside are moved to another area of a school, Superintendent Mike Miles said Tuesday.…
Read more HISD: Second Day and Counting Temps and Bus Routes[ { “name”: “Related Stories / Support Us Combo”, “component”: “11591218”, “insertPoint”: “4”, “requiredCountToDisplay”: “4” },{ “name”: “Air – Billboard – Inline Content”, “component”: “11591214”, “insertPoint”: “2/3”, “requiredCountToDisplay”:…
Read more HISD Summer School Students Return to Classes MondayALIEF, Texas (KTRK) — Alief Independent School District Police Chief Dan Turner said he spends more than half his time trying to recruit and hire officers to comply…
Read more 13 Investigates: Districts still need more officers as law calls for one per campusUpdate Tuesday 9:26 a.m. According to Brent Taylor, chief communications officer of the Houston Office of Emergency Management, Houstonians should expect the area on Travis from McKinney to…
Read more Power Restoration and Clean-Up Complications Affect School Districts and Neighborhoods [UPDATED]Houston ISD sent a letter to students’ families and community members, notifying them of the extent of damage to campuses and plans for the upcoming school day on…
Read more Houston ISD Notifies Community Members To Plan For Students To Return To Class on MondaySaying they were tired of academic policies they don’t trust and what they call hostile workplaces, 100 teachers from 35 HISD campuses called in sick Thursday to draw…
Read more HISD Teachers in 35 Schools Call in Sick Today to Protest District’s PoliciesIn a Tuesday press conference, as Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles enumerated all the ways he says previous administrations made poor decisions, wasting millions of dollars on unneeded…
Read more Miles Launches an Operations Overhaul for Efficiency, Savings and a Way to Balance His Budget
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