Houston ISD board to vote on whether to replace its student congress Community Impact Newspaper Share: HOUSTON, Texas -- Two of the founders of Houston ISD's Student Congress, Zaakir Tameez and Amy Fan, said they were blindsided when the board of trustees agenda for February included an item to cut ties with the group, which was founded in 2014 as a vehicle for student involvement in policymaking. "No one on the administration had reached out about this," said Fan, a 2016 Bellaire High School alumna and graduate of Duke University who now acts as an informal adviser to the group. "It was literally just me opening up the agenda ... and thinking, 'Wow, why are they doing this without consulting the group itself?'"