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Approximately three years after the state seized control of Houston ISD, Texas officials have increasingly held up the district as evidence that state intervention works. There’s numbers they can point to as HISD had 56 F-rated campuses before the takeover and has five this year, while many schools operating under state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles’ New Education System (NES) have posted significant gains under the state accountability system. But three years is also

One of Houston Federation of Teacher's very own, Dr. Coretta Mallet-Fontenot triumphed this week in a landslide win for the recently vacated spot on the State Board of Education.

Houston Chronicle’s Nusaiba Mizan recently uncovered some breaking news tucked away in this week’s Houston ISD Board of Managers agenda: The board intended to seek a waiver of state superintendent certification requirements for Mike Miles for the third time since Miles and the state took over HISD. Superintendent certification is important for many of the same reasons educator certification is important. This is neither a cushy vanity position nor an entry-level job. Alon

Following Rep. Hinojosa’s decisive primary win on Tuesday, labor activists and supporters gathered in downtown Houston to kick off the fight to November.

This week, election results nationwide resulted in decisive wins for candidates in local and state races who focused on real, quality-of-life issues over divisive partisan politics. In Texas, too, several local races underlined the same trend, with record off-year election turnout.

While tax rate elections and bonds by and large failed to pass on Election Day, pro-public education candidates surged in major school board races.

Last night, Houston voters elected two new trustees to the Houston Independent School District board in another electoral defeat for state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles.

Houston Federation of Teachers President Jackie Anderson speaks at a 2024 rally against the Texas Education Agency’s takeover of Houston ISD. When the Texas Education Agency announced its takeover of Fort Worth ISD last week, it marked another flashpoint in a long-brewing conflict over who controls the future of Texas public schools: local communities or the state… [ more ]

On Wednesday, the Houston Federation of Teachers (HFT) filed a lawsuit in Harris County district court against the Houston ISD Board of Managers and state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles for mismanaging state funds and denying the district’s teachers state-funded pay raises as required by law. As Hotline readers know, the Legislature passed House Bill 2 earlier… [ more ]

In many ways, any school bond election is a referendum on trust. Do voters trust district leaders to appropriately use taxpayer dollars, numbering into the millions and billions, to improve the learning conditions of their kids?