Cage Elementary News Today

Rumors emerged Tuesday that HISD has plans to merge Project Chrysalis with Navarro Middle School and move De Zavala Elementary School students into Cage Elementary next week, which the district denies.

HISD says closures won't be initiated until the 2024 school year as protestors worry Cage Elementary and Project Chrysalis Middle will be shut down.

Rumors emerged Tuesday that HISD has plans to merge Project Chrysalis with Navarro Middle School and move De Zavala Elementary School students into Cage Elementary next week, which the district denies.

Parents and teachers continue to speak out against reforms and turnover in Houston’s public school system. The protests intensified this week as the state-appointed leaders of Houston ISD removed more teachers from their schools. The debate over these types of reforms is not new — even in Houston.  

The fact that a Houston ISD district superintendent told teachers at two schools on Friday that they were going to have to embrace the New Education Schools and NES-Aligned Schools program or get out of the way inspired predictably enough, an outcry from parents at Cage Elementary and Chrysalis Middle School Monday morning.

Dozens of parents rallied outside Cage Elementary and Project Chrysalis Middle School in support of teachers and staff and against the NES model.

On Friday, an administrator told teachers at Cage Elementary and Project Chrysalis Middle schools to affirm their commitment to the new reform program by the end of the weekend or be reassigned. Monday morning, about thirty protestors gathered in front of the campus to speak out against the directive. 

East End residents, organizers work toward bikeability in Second Ward FacebookTwitterEmail 1of18 Jessica Wiggins, and associate at Traffic Engineers, Inc, leads a bike ride tour with a group of Houston City and Harris County officials join bike community members Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, at East End in Houston. The East End Bike Plan, which covers the 16 square miles of the East End District boundaries, will identify bike route improvements in the area based on the community’s feedback. Develop...