“We’re very concerned.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to seize control of Houston’s public school district and install a hand-picked board of managers to replace the duly elected school board is not sitting well with the city’s educators.
“We’re very concerned,” Clay Robison, a spokesman for the Texas State Teachers Association, the state affiliate of the National Education Association, told Yahoo News.
“The district had made significant progress in the past four years, and why was that disrupted? Why should the school district, the students in the school district and their parents go through extra years to get back to where they were getting already?” he continued.HISD, where 79.2% of students are classified as “economically disadvantaged,” received afrom the state for the 2021-22 academic year.
“Our view is that the ultimate problem with Wheatley High School is people like Greg Abbott,” Robison said. “Abbott has been in office now for more than eight years and has consistently underfunded public schools. This year his top priority is pushing private school vouchers to take even more money from public schools. The state began this, and Mike Morath is an appointee of Greg Abbott, answerable to no taxpayer. He’s answerable only to Greg Abbott.
Morath said the problems with the district extend beyond student performance, citing “chaotic board meetings marred by infighting” in his March 15 letter.
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