I'm not from Houston so I don't know anything about the takeover.

What exactly did they do to achieve improved performance ?

BTKAG97 said:

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NAACP, LULAC,

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interesting to note that these two factions absolutely hate one another and their constant infighting over who got to control HISD and hand out sweet contracts to their favored cousins and brothers in law is what caused the TEA to step in.

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I'm curious why and how the NAACP, ACLU, and LULAC, benefited from the prior administrative structure?

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My suspicion is probably ties to the teachers union?

The most consequential words ever uttered in American jurisprudence: disparate impact.

Race hustlers have used those words to negatively impact minority communities since the 60s.

Over_ed said:

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-largest-school-district-sees-test-scores-soar-after-state-takeover-despite-racism-claims

3 years ago, TEA took over the Houston Independent School District. The usual suspects (NAACP, ACLU, LULAC) sued to stop the TEA take-over as blatant discrimination: anti-black and anti-Hispanic..

Now, HISD has seen test scores soar. Number of A & B rated schools doubled in 2026. D and F rated campuses went from 121 (2023) to 18 (with no F-rated schools in 2026).

If setting the same expectations for all students is discrimination, I am 100% for it. It is great to see kids trapped in urban schools make progress, notwithstanding the expense is too high and the standards still way too low.

It is an embarrassment that the NAACP et al would rather these students be doing worse, in the name of racial "equity". Props to the TEA and those teachers.

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Hint: The NAACP, LULAC and any other organization similar has no intention nor desire for the things they supposedly advocate and fight for to come to fruition. Their purpose is to keep the status quo so the paychecks keep rolling in, and nothing beyond that.

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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SA68AG said:

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I'm not from Houston so I don't know anything about the takeover.

What exactly did they do to achieve improved performance ?

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Replaced the superintendent and the school board. So it instantly removed those that had risen through the local bureaucracy and replaced them with state appointed leaders. The budgets Co l got cleaned up, resources were properly allocated, lots of campus realignment and some closures. Finally there has been massive teacher contact non-renewals.

Last I heard any big dust up it's mostly just the lingering bureaucracy that's whining. Parents are on board, even if they're mad that they're on board (like the liberals that are mad they like the reflecting pool).

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I like how they re-instituted an honors program. So damn racist.

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It also established "Team Centers," where students who excel in daily core subject lessons are sent to complete advanced, independent work.

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Big thumbs up to this. In 5th/6th grade I had a teacher (Mrs Glass) that facilitated my working at grade levels far above the rest of my class. Fostering independent learning in advanced students is incredibly important.

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YouBet said:

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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SA68AG said:

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I'm not from Houston so I don't know anything about the takeover.

What exactly did they do to achieve improved performance ?

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Replaced the superintendent and the school board. So it instantly removed those that had risen through the local bureaucracy and replaced them with state appointed leaders. The budgets Co l got cleaned up, resources were properly allocated, lots of campus realignment and some closures. Finally there has been massive teacher contact non-renewals.

Last I heard any big dust up it's mostly just the lingering bureaucracy that's whining. Parents are on board, even if they're mad that they're on board (like the liberals that are mad they like the reflecting pool).

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I like how they re-instituted an honors program. So damn racist.

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It also established "Team Centers," where students who excel in daily core subject lessons are sent to complete advanced, independent work.

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Big thumbs up to this. In 5th/6th grade I had a teacher (Mrs Glass) that facilitated my working at grade levels far above the rest of my class. Fostering independent learning in advanced students is incredibly important.

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Agree. Smart kids need to be pushed, not held up. But they also need to be with their age/peer group. It doesn't really serve them well to put an 9 year old (3rd-ish grade) that can do algebra in a 7th grade class.

Kenneth_2003 said:

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Over_ed said:

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YouBet said:

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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SA68AG said:

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I'm not from Houston so I don't know anything about the takeover.

What exactly did they do to achieve improved performance ?

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Replaced the superintendent and the school board. So it instantly removed those that had risen through the local bureaucracy and replaced them with state appointed leaders. The budgets Co l got cleaned up, resources were properly allocated, lots of campus realignment and some closures. Finally there has been massive teacher contact non-renewals.

Last I heard any big dust up it's mostly just the lingering bureaucracy that's whining. Parents are on board, even if they're mad that they're on board (like the liberals that are mad they like the reflecting pool).

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I like how they re-instituted an honors program. So damn racist.

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It also established "Team Centers," where students who excel in daily core subject lessons are sent to complete advanced, independent work.

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Big thumbs up to this. In 5th/6th grade I had a teacher (Mrs Glass) that facilitated my working at grade levels far above the rest of my class. Fostering independent learning in advanced students is incredibly important.

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Agree. Smart kids need to be pushed, not held up. But they also need to be with their age/peer group. It doesn't really serve them well to put an 9 year old (3rd-ish grade) that can do algebra in a 7th grade class.

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But it was so funny in Young Sheldon

Kenneth_2003 said:

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SA68AG said:

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I'm not from Houston so I don't know anything about the takeover.

What exactly did they do to achieve improved performance ?

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Replaced the superintendent and the school board. So it instantly removed those that had risen through the local bureaucracy and replaced them with state appointed leaders. The budgets got cleaned up, resources were properly allocated, lots of campus realignment and some closures. Finally there has been massive teacher contract non-renewals.

Last I heard any big dust up, it's mostly just the lingering bureaucracy that's whining. Parents are on board, even if they're mad that they're on board (like the liberals that are mad they like the reflecting pool).

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Can confirm about the mass teacher exodus.

Basically, being a teacher in HISD at any of the campuses under scrutiny has become an absolute hellscape of nonstop evaluations and zero deviation from Mike Miles prescribed curriculum.

At least that's what I'm hearing reported from someone who is in the trenches on the frontlines every day.

The Mike Miles TEA takeover has very little to do with educating children and everything to do with pumping up numbers and decreasing salaries.

Now don't get me wrong, education has long been a safe hiding place for incompetence but, I'm not sure if killing off all teacher ambition is the right way to go either. If any teacher lasts 5 years in this new system, it will be a miracle.

In the district where my favorite teacher teaches, she's actually on her 3rd generation of kids - teaching current student and taught that student's parents and grandparents. That kind of tenure won't be happening in HISD.

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YouBet said:

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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SA68AG said:

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I'm not from Houston so I don't know anything about the takeover.

What exactly did they do to achieve improved performance ?

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Replaced the superintendent and the school board. So it instantly removed those that had risen through the local bureaucracy and replaced them with state appointed leaders. The budgets Co l got cleaned up, resources were properly allocated, lots of campus realignment and some closures. Finally there has been massive teacher contact non-renewals.

Last I heard any big dust up it's mostly just the lingering bureaucracy that's whining. Parents are on board, even if they're mad that they're on board (like the liberals that are mad they like the reflecting pool).

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I like how they re-instituted an honors program. So damn racist.

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It also established "Team Centers," where students who excel in daily core subject lessons are sent to complete advanced, independent work.

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Big thumbs up to this. In 5th/6th grade I had a teacher (Mrs Glass) that facilitated my working at grade levels far above the rest of my class. Fostering independent learning in advanced students is incredibly important.

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That's not possible in HISD today under this new system. Trust me.

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Agree. Smart kids need to be pushed, not held up. But they also need to be with their age/peer group. It doesn't really serve them well to put an 9 year old (3rd-ish grade) that can do algebra in a 7th grade class.

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I skipped one of my kids ahead a year due to academics. In so many ways, I wish I would have left her in the regular grade level so that we would have had one more year with her versus sending her off to college at 17.

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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Agree. Smart kids need to be pushed, not held up. But they also need to be with their age/peer group. It doesn't really serve them well to put an 9 year old (3rd-ish grade) that can do algebra in a 7th grade class.

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I skipped one of my kids ahead a year due to academics. In so many ways, I wish I would have left her in the regular grade level so that we would have had one more year with her versus sending her off to college at 17.

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This happened to me in the 1970s. I went from 2nd to 4th grade. It was fine until middle school. I wanted to play football and did for about two weeks, but the other boys who were held back were hitting puberty were beating the crap out of me on the field. Them in high school, most of my classmates had their driver's licenses a year, sometimes two, before I did.

I didn't turn 18 until my second semester at A&M. The sucky part about that was that I couldn't legally drink at the Chicken until I was a senior

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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Agree. Smart kids need to be pushed, not held up. But they also need to be with their age/peer group. It doesn't really serve them well to put an 9 year old (3rd-ish grade) that can do algebra in a 7th grade class.

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I skipped one of my kids ahead a year due to academics. In so many ways, I wish I would have left her in the regular grade level so that we would have had one more year with her versus sending her off to college at 17.

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I spent a year at Lamar in Beaumont fixing grades before transferring to Geology. I'm standing outside my dorm smoking a cig. At this time I was probably 21/22... Little hottie walks up and bums a smoke. We're chatting, and she asks if I would get her a pack of smokes. Oh like drive you to the quick mart? She says no, she'll give me the money but she's only 16.

NO! NO! NO! Bless her heart, turns out she was homeschooled and finished school really early and was now in college. Felt kinda bad for her, but I never spoke to her again.

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HollywoodBQ said:

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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Agree. Smart kids need to be pushed, not held up. But they also need to be with their age/peer group. It doesn't really serve them well to put an 9 year old (3rd-ish grade) that can do algebra in a 7th grade class.

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I skipped one of my kids ahead a year due to academics. In so many ways, I wish I would have left her in the regular grade level so that we would have had one more year with her versus sending her off to college at 17.

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I spent a year at Lamar in Beaumont fixing grades before transferring to Geology. I'm standing outside my dorm smoking a cig. At this time I was probably 21/22... Little hottie walks up and bums a smoke. We're chatting, and she asks if I would get her a pack of smokes. Oh like drive you to the quick mart? She says no, she'll give me the money but she's only 16.

NO! NO! NO! Bless her heart, turns out she was homeschooled and finished school really early and was now in college. Felt kinda bad for her, but I never spoke to her again.

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Sure you didn't.

YouBet said:

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People in those organizations are low IQ morons who have no business advocating for anything whatsoever. They need to go away and quit hamstringing their own people.

Will be curious to see how Ft. Worth ends up now that the state has taken them over as well.

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Yes.. my yards red ant mound has a higher IQ than some of the people in public education for big cities like Houston. Basically a government job that requires you to be able to sign your name. Not all public educators are like this but plenty are in places like HISD. If I wasn't correct, the state wouldn't have to do what they are now doing

Well, it sounds like they were **** teachers anyway. Not sure how you fix a large inner city school district without taking it over. I fully expect HISD to regress to their mean after the state leaves in 2027 because the locals are racist morons. Sucks for those kids knowing that tsunami is already inbound.

Or maybe there is some kind of knowledge transfer process with the folks that will take over...that will actually stick. Highly doubt it though.

But all the white liberals in my neighborhood have the Superintendent Miles Must Go and F Miles yard signs!!!

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But all the white liberals in my neighborhood have the Superintendent Miles Must Go and F Miles yard signs!!!

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Insanity. Literally campaigning for black kids to fail in life.

Burdizzo said:

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HollywoodBQ said:

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Kenneth_2003 said:

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Agree. Smart kids need to be pushed, not held up. But they also need to be with their age/peer group. It doesn't really serve them well to put an 9 year old (3rd-ish grade) that can do algebra in a 7th grade class.

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I skipped one of my kids ahead a year due to academics. In so many ways, I wish I would have left her in the regular grade level so that we would have had one more year with her versus sending her off to college at 17.

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This happened to me in the 1970s. I went from 2nd to 4th grade. It was fine until middle school. I wanted to play football and did for about two weeks, but the other boys who were held back were hitting puberty were beating the crap out of me on the field. Them in high school, most of my classmates had their driver's licenses a year, sometimes two, before I did.

I didn't turn 18 until my second semester at A&M. The sucky part about that was that I couldn't legally drink at the Chicken until I was a senior

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You did well Brother...