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December 1, 1994
The Trial of Joe Russo
An intimate look at how -- and why -- Houston's high flyer of the '80s was taken apart in court
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September 10, 2009
Millions & Millions On School Improvements Getting Voted On Today: You Getting Any?
Photo courtesy HISDThe Houston school board plans to vote later today on $121.5 million in school improvements over and above the projects approved in the 2007 bond election.Because each of the nine trustee districts has exactly the same amount of overcrowding/undercrowding and facilities in need ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
Divisive or Not, HISD Board Approves New Way to Target Failing Teachers
This is the tale of two teachers. Each of them inherit fifth-graders who test out at the start of the school year, on average, at third grade, fifth month. The kids are from the same neighborhood. They have identical demographics: roughly the same number come from single-parent homes, live in ... More >>
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February 1, 2010
HISD's Terry Grier: Agent Provocateur
Photo by Margaret DowningPrediction: In a year, Superintendent Terry Grier will either be a celebrated hero, or the scapegoat for pretty much of everything that goes wrong in the Houston Independent School District.As Hair Balls said before, there doesn't seem to be a go-slow switch in Grier's ar ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
Pre-K In Danger, Tax Rolls Down, HISD Looks For The Rabbit In The Hat
Houston ISD's tax rolls look to be down 4.32 percent in the next year, with a loss of almost $5 billion in assessed values for 2011 over 2010. Most of the lost money is coming from lowered commercial property values, with the least decrease among residential property owners.Things could be even w ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
Pop Tarts Buh Bye (Yes!) But What About Those Jews and Muslim Kids Who Don't Eat Pork?
Pop Tarts are exiting the Houston ISD breakfast program. As Hair Balls detailed a month ago, union leader Orell Fitzsimmons attacked the district's use of Pop Tarts and other surgary, processed foods in its breakfast program at a board meeting -- and apparently made some headway.This morning, fo ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Terry Grier Can't Find A Workable Alternative to CEP
Photo by Margaret DowningCEP survives another day, even under GrierThere will be trims. There will be millions of dollars in savings. There will be new initiatives and new monitoring, but the bottom line is: Community Education Partners will continue to operate its two alternative schools in Hou ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Only 15 Percent Of HISD 9th-Graders End Up With A College Degree
No college degree for 85 percent of HISD 9th-graders?About 15 percent of Houston Independent School District ninth graders will get a college degree.That stark news was delivered at the board of trustees early morning workshop today to the six board members in attendance (Anna Eastman, Diana Davi ... More >>
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June 24, 2010
No Raises For HISD Employees
That paycheck ain't changing next yearThere won't be any raises for employees of the Houston ISD the next school year.Houston ISD trustees adopted a 2010-11 budget totaling $1.613 billion Thursday night that Chief Financial Officer Melinda Garrett termed a "survival" budget, adding th ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
HISD Trustees Go For Guinness World Record in the Long-Winded Meetings Category
HISD: Lots of talk, no actionIf Houston ISD trustees really want to fulfill their promise of transparency, they need to start getting to the point a lot quicker in their meetings -- so that when they have something important to debate, more people are still there to hear it.Last night's meeting w ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Diana Davila's Vacated HISD Board Seat -- Let the Games Continue!
Come one, come allInviting all comers who live in District VIII of the Houston ISD. Anyone who ever wanted to be a school board member is invited over to Furr High School, 520 Mercury, 77013 at 11 a.m. this Tuesday to pitch themselves and their ideas as to why they'd be the best person to replace ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Principal Bertie Simmons Gets Her School Fixed Up (a Little), Furr Forum Hosts Trustee Candidates
You, too, can be an HISD board member. MaybeA spiffed-up Furr High School played host to the District VIII school board candidates forum at mid-day today, as community members and some trustees got a chance to assess who might be a good choice to replace Diana Davila.Some of the Furr High School ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
HISD Trustees Decide to Trust District VIII Voters, Call For Election
Trustees want you to get out there and vote for somebody.State Representative Armando Walle appeared before the Houston ISD school board today to argue that rather than an appointment, the trustees should vote for a called election this November to fill Diana Davila's unexpired term. "We don't ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
HISD Magnet Schools to Get the Once Over, Trustees Decide
Magnets, you are officially under reviewHouston ISD trustees decided to bravely step into the middle of a whole pile of poop passion today when they voted 7-0 to authorize the administration to hire an outside firm to do an audit of the district's magnet school system.The discussion began with a ... More >>
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September 3, 2010
HISD Lures Teens With Twilight
Note: School may still suckNot to be too damned cute about it, but as everyone knows, it isn't only vampires who come out at twilight.The Houston ISD is more than aware that it has a healthy cohort of high school kids who just can't seem to make it to early morning classes. Last year, it tried a ... More >>
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September 23, 2010
HISD Puts Magnets Under the Microscope
Terry Grier stirs up a hornet's nestHouston ISD may move to a lottery-only system in applications to any of its 113 magnet school programs. "We're allowing principals to decide who gets in and who doesn't. We accuse some of our charters of skimming. Well frankly, we're doing some of the same thi ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Carol Mims Galloway Says Sending Benji's Academy Students to Another Charter is Just Dumping on Her District
Photo courtesy HISDCarol Mims Galloway doesn't want to get dumped onHouston ISD trustee Carol Mims Galloway made it very clear at Thursday's school board meeting that she isn't all that happy with the district riding to the rescue of the kids at the failed charter school, Benji's Academy by putti ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
HISD Takes Beginning Steps Towards "Right-Sizing" Schools
Tough times are ahead for HISD. Near the end of today's meeting about "right sizing" schools in Houston, Houston ISD board president Greg Meyers summed up just about everything we know about the proposed changes:"I'm not sure how much clarity has been given at this point," he said. That was after ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
HISD Trustees Wrestle With Their Magnet Report
A lot of questions about the future of HISD's magnet programIn a three-hour session Monday devoted to a review of a just-released report on what should be done about magnet schools in the Houston ISD, trustees discussed changing how kids are picked for magnet schools by next fall (Superintend ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
HISD Magnet School Discussion Brings Out the Parents, the Passion
Revolution is brewing...The message was clear at Lamar High School last night: remove the magnet designation from high performing schools in the district and Houston ISD will not only be destroying dreams and futures, but it will lose a lot of money as its best and brightest go elsewhere. Tr ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Apollo 20 Pluses and Minuses at Mid-Year
Photo by Margaret DowningApollo 20 in action at Ryan Middle SchoolDuring Saturday's tutoring session for 6th to 8th graders at Ryan Middle School, students were first asked to fill out a multiplication grid table going from 1 times 1 on up. Claudia J. "Coach" Sylvester told them it was "not c ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Texas Finances in Tatters, State Tells HISD It's "The New Normal"
Get used to itChief Financial Officer Melinda Garrett passed on the new buzz phrase coming out of the state capital at today's Houston ISD workshop session: "The New Normal," which is being used to explain that the current state budget crisis isn't a transitory thing but something that will b ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Apollo 20 Picks Up 11 Elementaries, But Not Without a Fight
Board reluctantly endorses Grier's planIt took three sets of votes, but in the end Houston ISD trustees in a 5-4 vote gave Superintendent Terry Grier the go-ahead on his proposal to expand the Apollo 20 program to 11 elementary schools next year. The debate was long, with passionate argument ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Casualties of War
Parents who bought into the TAKS hype dealt blow at HISD meeting.
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February 23, 2011
HISD Trustee Harvin Moore Wants the State to Man Up
Harvin Moore: Not happy, despite the smileHouston ISD trustee Harvin Moore has come out guns blazing against the probable hefty cut in state funding for education to local public school districts, saying that legislators aren't honoring their constitutional duty to support education in Texas. ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Higher Taxes, Fewer Teachers: HISD Readies Itself for a Tough Sell
Margaret DowningTerry Grier and the board face tough financial decisionsHigher taxes, a sweeping change in bus times, a cut in the number of police officers in the schools and an end to special school adjustments that for the noted T.H. Rogers elementary and middle school alone would mean a l ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
HISD: Terry Grier -- Budget Crisis Detailed, 25 Magnets Proposed To Be Slashed
Terry Grier proposed some controversial changes to HISD last night.The Houston school district suggested sweeping changes to nearly every detail of its infrastructure last night in light of the budget crisis it faces, from cutting down the number of crossing guards that lead children to schoo ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
It's Nut-Cutting Time at HISD
The axman comethThere was no talk of raising taxes as Houston ISD trustees reviewed a list of proposed reductions to the district's budget next year and prepared to approve the first step in a notification process calling for fewer teachers by fall 2011. Cuts to schools alone came in at $65 m ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
HISD Cuts Millions, May Not Be Enough
Margaret DowningBig, skeptical crowd at HISD budget-cuts meetingLast night was an elected official's nightmare. Not only did Houston ISD trustees vote to significantly reduce funding for the district's kids and schools, to clear the way to cut hundreds of teachers' jobs, and to potentially cl ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
HISD Trustees Ask For More Data Before They Make Tough Decisions
HISD could use some of 50 Cent's cash.It was another lengthy trek through the budget for Houston ISD trustees this morning as board members considered good news - the shortfall from the state may be several million dollars less than first thought (but still a lot) - and not so great: employee ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Redrawing Fiefdoms in Ye Olde HISD
Margaret DowningGene Locke walked HISD trustees through redistricting, Chapter 1The Hispanic population continues to boom, the Anglo drip-drip-drip away to suburbia continues, there's a small decline among African Americans in Houston ISD and the district's biggest gain percentage wise is in ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
HISD's Harvin Moore: Nothing 'Heroic' About Gutting Education
HISDHarvin Moore puts the Lege on blastHouston ISD trustee Harvin Moore has just issued his third in a series of columns on the Texas education funding crisis, and this time he examines whether all the public funding woes can be laid at the feet of so-called inefficiencies. His column, whic ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
At HISD, Where Teachers Are Worth Their Weight in Buses
HISD school buses: Available for hireAt the same time as the Houston ISD administration has proposed consolidating its bus routes to save an anticipated $1.2 million in transportation costs, it also wants to enter into a contract with KIPP and Yes Prep to transport their charter school studen ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
HISD Students and Parents Won't Have to Learn New Bus Times This Fall
Proposed schedule change goes boomIn what had to be something of a surprise to the Houston ISD administration, school board trustees in a 4-3 vote Thursday night turned down a plan that would have standardized and changed start and stop times at the district's schools two months from now. Su ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
HISD Gets Millions, Avoids Tax Hike & Harvin Moore Gives the Lege a Bronx Cheer
Cutting too much doesn't mean there's money in the bankIt doesn't look like there's going to be an increase in taxes after all and Houston ISD just got word that it's been approved for more than $70.6 million in so-called E-Rate Funding which means a lot of kids who've been going without wi-f ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Terry Grier Says Please, Please Mr. Postman
Houston ISD Superintendent Terry Grier has been busy writing letters, in one responding to state Senator Mario Gallegos, who has questioned whether some people are making money through Apollo 20 who shouldn't be, and a second and more immediate one to counter today's Houston Chronicle banner ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Most HISD Trustees Say Give the Money Back to the Schools Now
Disagreements about money and how to spend it.A majority of Houston ISD trustees meeting Monday afternoon said they want $18.5 million -- the amount of money they initially overcut from their budget -- to go back to the district's schools this fall with no restrictions on how principals shoul ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
HISD Trustees Say Power to the Principals
A "permanent" disagreementIn a 5-3 vote, Houston ISD trustees passed an amended motion Thursday night to return $18.5 million to principals for the 2011-12 school year with no strings attached -- but with an extra designation that the return of the money would be "permanent." Trustee Anna Ea ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
TCEQ Says No to Millions of Dollars in Tax Breaks for Valero
Area school districts and cities had to be breathing a big sigh of relief today as news came out that the executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said "no" to handing out large tax breaks to Valero that would have made things even worse for cash-strapped government ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Mike Lunceford Elected Prez of HISD School Board, Love Boat-Style
There's a new skipper at the helm. It was a veritable love fest on Thursday night as Michael Lunceford was elected the new president of the Houston ISD school board, nominated by the two trustees who had reportedly been in the running for the position themselves. Greg Meyers nominated and An ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
HISD's Grier Scores a Semi-Win in Contract Extension, Three Trustees Search for Their Cojones
No need to express an opinion.Three abstentions? Really? You're voting on extending the contract of the man who works for you and you opt out? Decide not to have an opinion? Decide not to share your opinion? Certainly it's unlike any job review in the real world. Last night, as expected, fiv ... More >>

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