I am a local and fairly well educated on it as a lay person and parent. It is a complicated issue. HISD is extremely diverse and big. Some of the best high schools in the nation are in HISD and some that perpetually underperform are also in the district.
A lot of the issue comes down to what metrics are being measured and what can realistically be expected of a school that has all the problems of entrenched poverty and unstable living situations for the students’ families.
I do personally think there is a bit of politics involved because the state TEA is much more conservative than the district leadership in the large districts in the state. They made a set of school accountability metrics that I think most schools with high poverty issues would have is struggles meeting and waited for HISD to not pass the thresholds.
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I am a local and fairly well educated on it as a lay person and parent. It is a complicated issue. HISD is extremely diverse and big. Some of the best high schools in the nation are in HISD and some that perpetually underperform are also in the district.
A lot of the issue comes down to what metrics are being measured and what can realistically be expected of a school that has all the problems of entrenched poverty and unstable living situations for the students’ families.
I do personally think there is a bit of politics involved because the state TEA is much more conservative than the district leadership in the large districts in the state. They made a set of school accountability metrics that I think most schools with high poverty issues would have is struggles meeting and waited for HISD to not pass the thresholds.