Businessman John Privett thought he had a solution to the problems of some of Houston's troubled schools. The parents wanted to try it. The teachers wanted to try it. But HISD administrators said no.
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At J. Will Jones Elementary, workers are busy retrofitting, and the staff is getting ready to leave for good.
"It's sad to walk through the building and see all the rooms empty, the library stripped clean," Brian Flores, the former principal, tells Hair Balls.
After a drawn-out resistance from angry locals and parents the 101-year-old school officially closed its doors, due to low enrollment, with the end of the school year. (It will be reopened next yea
