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Texas announces takeover of Houston schools
2023-03-16
[Yahoo] Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political.

The announcement, made by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's education commissioner, Mike Morath, amounts to one of the largest school takeovers ever in the U.S. It also deepens a high-stakes rift between Texas' largest city, where Democrats wield control, and state Republican leaders, who have sought increased authority following election fumbles and COVID-19 restrictions.

The takeover is the latest example of Republican and predominately white state officials pushing to take control of actions in heavily minority and Democratic-led cities. They include St. Louis and Jackson, Mississippi, where the Legislature is pushing to take over the water system and for an expanded role for state police and appointed judges.
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  The only solution is the one Paps Mundi came up with: the fathers get inolved and coach these boys - usually throught sports. But dads have been exorcised from society and that the moms have been shown to be "lacking" in the area of masculinity. It's almost like this was the plan.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-03-16 19:33  

#10  You can pitch it as Repubs vs Dems, but this is not a new problem. A couple decades back, a buddy picked up his family and moved from Houston to Pearland, just south of the city, to get away from the Houston Independent School District. I doubt he was the only one.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-03-16 18:05  

#9  This is about twenty years too late to do any good.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-03-16 13:50  

#8  The district has to be really bad to be taken over by the state. I suspect they failed to meet mutually agreed to criteria several times prior to takeover.
Posted by: Itsoktobewhite   2023-03-16 12:47  

#7  If you do nothing, they complain that you don’t care. If you do something, they complain that you are heavy handed racists. Certainly, there are majority white schools that also underperform. Generally, those failures occur in smaller communities in the hinterlands and are not on the same scale. Hopefully, they have a better plan than the Bush Administration did for Iraq.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-16 12:29  

#6  Leftism, CRT, "Wokeness," and drag queens in schools must have tested the public's limits.
Posted by: JohnQC   2023-03-16 11:41  

#5  Some school board rep said on the news last night, "They didn't even talk to the parents!"

Not even 100,000 of 'em.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-03-16 11:04  

#4  Critics argue that state interventions generally have not led to big improvements.

Mostly due to foot-dragging and sabotage by the Teachers, their Unions, and Democrat Politicians?
Posted by: Frank G   2023-03-16 09:47  

#3  The apologists for the status quo:

"Mistakes were made, but comon, man..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-03-16 08:34  

#2  Corrupt and incompetent is no way to go through life, son.
Posted by: Fleter Crasing2148   2023-03-16 03:39  

#1  Houston area’s feral hogs exploding in numbers, creating a constant struggle for residents
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-03-16 00:52  

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