Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Rod Paige, former U.S education secretary and Houston ISD superintendent, says in this column that the public is served by keeping HISD's superintendent search private. ** What a turn of events. A...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Our Saturday DMN story on TAKS results hits on two major changes that helped and hurt some campuses. And reporter Holly Hacker takes an in-depth look at six schools that had their...
District trustees are balking at several proposals to revamp Spruce and Samuell high schools, saying time is too short and state demands are too extreme to pull off the changes before the start of the next school year. The two...
I've tried to talk to Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott since Friday afternoon about this DISD takeover issue, but I haven't had much luck. I just got an e-mail from a TEA spokeswoman that says Scott will be in...
FrontBurner had it first, but we'll flesh it out for you. State schools czar Robert Scott is coming up to meet with district brass on Friday for what is being described as an "update" on DISD's efforts to erase its...
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