Subject: Abelardo Saavedra

• Perhaps An End to Bus Stops As We Know Them

  June 22, 2007

• Report Card for All HISD Schools

  August 1, 2007

• HISD Gives Out Bonuses Like They're Going Out Of Style

  You should feel really bad if you work for HISD and you didn't get a bonus this year.The school district announced this morning that 88 percent of eligible employees got a bonus because of the "tremendous academic growth of its students."The total handed out rose from $24 million last year to $31 million this year."HISD holds the highest of standards for academic student growth. We are so pleased that so many of our staff exceeded this standard" said HISD Superintendent of Schools Abelardo Saave

  January 28, 2009

• College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training

  Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students

  May 15, 2008

• Houston's Best Public High Schools

  February 23, 2006

• On Second Thought

  HISD isn't laughing now about a breakfast program

  February 10, 2005

• Time Out, Mack

  Rewarding bad behavior by underachievers

  December 16, 2004

• Wake-Up Call

  The TAKS field test results were so gawd-awful they may become a catalyst for good

  November 28, 2002

• Swine Flu Closes Three HISD Schools, Episcopal High -- And All Of Fort Worth ISD (UPDATED)

  HISD has announced two schools have closed until further notice because of possible -- but not confirmed -- cases of swine flu.Harvard Elementary and Hamilton Middle School, both in the Heights, are the schools."Late last night the City of Houston Health Department informed HISD Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra of two probable, but not confirmed, cases of swine flu and advised the district to immediately close both schools as a precaution," HISD spokesman Norm Uhl said. "The principals of both s

  April 30, 2009