Houston school officials want to be very clear -- the latest employees arrested for drugs were not teachers at a northwest side charter school.Their desire to make the point clear is understandable, given that so many teachers and staffers have been nabbed for pot lately.So let's emphasize -- the two people arrested for drugs today are not teachers at the charter school.Instead they were a teacher and an administrator working at the neighboring North Region Office of HISD.Who were working there
Photo by bobster1985There's trouble brewing at the Girls and Boys Preparatory Academy, a small charter school on Houston's southwest side. A little background: the academy received its charter in 1995, making it one of 19 original charter schools to open in Texas. Carroll Salley, the school's founder, was working at HISD but didn't like the way black students were treated, so she started the academy, according to an article in African-American News & Issues. Problems started when a new super
