Candidates appear at ATPE forum Written by Beverly Horner Published: 20 April 2021 The Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) held a forum April 12 for candidates for the Humble ISD school board. Topics ranged from how to better prepare students for next steps, transgender sporting participation, volunteering, Title 1 schools, diversity and technology. Each candidate was given one minute to answer the posed questions to the best of their ability. The talent pool was vast, as the candidates each came with differing strengths, ideas for change and backgrounds to benefit the students of the district. Several questions had the candidates unified in response, such as diversity and inclusion, transgender sporting participation and pandemic handling.