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On Monday Oct. 21, the Texas Tribune and Austin Current brought together AISD advocates and people who have lived through and researched Houston ISD’s takeover to discuss what Austin ISD could face. Austin ISD is on the brink of becoming the next Texas district taken over by the state. In August Burnet and Webb middle schools received their fifth straight failing rating. Triggering a law that directs Commissioner Mike Morath to either close the schools or appoint a board of m

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

H-1B visa holders make up less than half a percentage point of all Texas teachers, but they fill important gaps in urban districts - the Governor's proposal is unnecessarily cruel and solves no problems while making the staffing crisis worse.