The TEA on Wednesday seized control of Houston Independent School District, the largest...
FILE - People hold up signs at a news conference, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Houston while protesting the proposed takeover of the city's school district by the Texas Education Agency. Texas officials on Wednesday, March 15, announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political.
, tasked with providing leadership, guidance and support to more than 1,200 independent school districts in Texas. A key word, there:"independent." While all states have a department or agency tasked with overseeing education, Texas is one of just a few that has independent school districts, governed by locally elected boards of trustees, separate from the state or municipal governments., a software developer and investor from north Texas who was appointed to the post in 2015 by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Before becoming commissioner of education, Morath served more than four years on the board of trustees of the Dallas Independent School District, where he gained a reputation as a"proven education reformer," Abbott said.Under normal circumstances — because Texas has independent school districts — TEA has less power than comparable state agencies.
State law, however, gives state officials authority to take over school districts that have faced five consecutive years of low academic performances under the statewide accountability standards — in which case, the TEA has a much more direct role to play.Five consecutive years of low academic performance, is the official explanation.
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