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HISD reports more teacher and principal turnover, progress on special education compliance and systemic campus reforms under Superintendent Mike Miles.
The number of students in Houston ISD has been on a downward slide since the COVID-19 pandemic. That enrollment decline continued this school year, and the expansion of a controversial reform program could make things worse.
In Houston ISD, a program intended to meet the basic needs of students is shifting focus from food access to truancy and dropout prevention. The changes come on the heels of a major reduction in the size of HISD’s Homeless Services Office, from 40 workers to 12. Even with a $12 million investment in the new Sunrise Center initiative, some community members worry that HISD is on the wrong path.
The state-appointed administration of Houston public schools is expanding the sweeping “New Education System” reform initiative — just as support programs for families decline or shift focus. What does it all mean for HISD students, teachers and families?
Parents in Boone County, Kentucky, were outraged this past January when a ninth grader who had been suspended a year earlier for threatening violence against his fellow students returned to