HISD can't afford another failure. TEA takeover must get 3 things right. (Editorial)

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HISD can't afford another failure. TEA takeover must get 3 things right. (Editorial)
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How will we know if the goals of Gov. Greg Abbott and his education commissioner, Mike Morath, are really to improve schools and the futures of Houston schoolchildren, asks the Editorial Board.

It’s another thing to say the state can do any better.

, a 2021 study from the University of Virginia and Brown University, the first cross-state comparison of its kind, examined all state takeovers from 2011-2016 and overall, found"no evidence that takeover generates academic benefits." Our skepticism and worry for the schoolchildren in the path of this takeover are tempered by other things: curiosity about how this experiment will work and even a glimmer of hope about what it could accomplish if TEA's commissioner, Mike Morath, keeps his word to put kids first.

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