State of Texas to take over HISD

[Winehole23]

Looks like the dismissal of the troubled HISD school board it's pretty much a fait accompli, but the teacher's union has filed a voting rights lawsuit to stop it:

https://www.texasobserver.org/hisd-houston-teachers-fight-back-against-state-takeover/amp/

[boutons_deux]

Looks like the dismissal of the troubled HISD school board it's pretty much a fait accompli, but the teacher's union has filed a voting rights lawsuit to stop it:

https://www.texasobserver.org/hisd-houston-teachers-fight-back-against-state-takeover/amp/

The article I read said only one school was consistently failing, not many schools in HISD, not the entire HISD.

Just another example of uncheckable, shithole authoritarian TX White Male (rural) Supremacists fucking over them Dem-votin urban knitters, because they can.

Houston even elected lesbian mayor, so God supports the TX Repugs punishing Houston.

Let's see how, and if, the Repugs fix the problems.

We know public education is a Repug priority targeted for destruction by privatisation

[Winehole23]

This has nothing to do with a gay mayor, and the State of Texas, though it is certainly trampling on Houston and. Houston voters, os not going to abolish public schools in Houston. That's crazy talk.

[pgardn]

Looks like the dismissal of the troubled HISD school board it's pretty much a fait accompli, but the teacher's union has filed a voting rights lawsuit to stop it:

https://www.texasobserver.org/hisd-houston-teachers-fight-back-against-state-takeover/amp/

What a mess.

The one thing that really caught my eye in this article was the possibility that this district was headed the direction of the New Orleans model. There is already great disparity in public education, throw the private model in and make it worse by creating public schools that are designed to keep kids off the streets and in a room with an adult watching them as they move to different holding facilities (classrooms) throughout the day. If you live in the right place and have the right parents, you go private.

[pgardn]

The article I read said only one school was consistently failing, not many schools in HISD, not the entire HISD.

Just another example of uncheckable, shithole authoritarian TX White Male (rural) Supremacists fucking over them Dem-votin urban knitters, because they can.

Houston even elected lesbian mayor, so God supports the TX Repugs punishing Houston.

Let's see how, and if, the Repugs fix the problems.

We know public education is a Repug priority targeted for destruction by privatisation

That is an absolutely shitty school district on the whole. It appears to be much worse than SAISD was.

[boutons_deux]

This has nothing to do with a gay mayor, and the State of Texas, though it is certainly trampling on Houston and. Houston voters, os not going to abolish public schools in Houston. That's crazy talk.

If TX Repugs can punish, power-play blue cities, they can, they will, and they have, in any way possible.

eg, SA businessmen got a "pro child" judge to block SA's paid sick leave plans, saying paid sick leave is exclusively a state topic (like Uber/Lyft paid the TX whores so TX blue cities can't regulate rideshare like they regulate taxis), knowing full well shitbag Repugs in shithole TX, where minimum wage is blocked at an unliveable $7.25 and untouchable, will kill any pro-employee programs.