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May 9, 2013
Sterling High School: Keeping It All Together
As Sterling High School’s year comes to an end, merger talk has the community upset, critics say they can’t trust HISD, and its latest principal is pulling out all the stops to try to get kids to graduation.
Blogs
February 10, 2012
HISD's Grier Scores a Semi-Win in Contract Extension, Three Trustees Search for Their Cojones
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, five members of the Houston ISD school b ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2012
Mike Lunceford Elected Prez of HISD School Board, Love Boat-Style
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 Anna Eastman seconded. The board normally li ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
HISD Takes Over North Forest ISD
North Forest is now part of HISD.The Houston school district, which like every district in Texas these days has enough on its plate, got a new problem handed to it today -- the state ordered it to annex the troubled North Forest ISD. North Forest has struggled for years with poor performance ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Paula Harris, HISD Strangely Accuse Reporter of Unethical Behavior
HISD issues diktat on jounralistic ethics.The Houston school district and its board president, Paula Harris, have accused Texas Watchdog reporter Michael Cronin of "unethical behavior" because, among other things, he taped a conversation with her. HISD spokesman Jason Spencer, a former Houst ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Meet HISD Board Candidates -- Even the Ones Who Aren't TV Stars
Paula Harris is the Law & Order of HISD TV.If you watch Houston ISD TV, then you know school board President Paula Harris and the First Vice President Manuel Rodriguez. They are everywhere. For just some of the examples: Besides the televised monthly board meetings, Harris was on The Stude ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Anna Eastman: HISD Board May Be Losing the Public Trust
Anna Eastman calls for an audit.Acknowledging that "the public trust that we've had is really waning" and that "there's an appearance of impropriety," Houston ISD board trustee Anna Eastman said today she believes the district should have "a third party to audit our bidding and procurement pr ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
HISD: New STAAR Standardized Test Will Completely Change All Curriculum
HISD gets tested.Texas public schools are trading the standardized test they currently use, TAKS, for a brand-new test -- one that's much harder. Said Superintendent Terry Grier, "This is probably the biggest thing that's happened in Texas education in a long, long time." This morning, five ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2011
TEA Applies the Hammer to North Forest (And HISD): Historically Terrible District Should Be Taken Over by Houston, It Says (Updated with HISD Response)
Welcome to HISD.The Texas Education Agency has finally had enough of the North Forest ISD, a lower-income school district with chronic problems demonstrating proficiency on standardized tests. Today the TEA took the unusual step of ordering it to close, and suggesting it be taken over by HIS ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
HISD Trustees Pass Budget, Listen as Larry Says He's Not a Mooch, Anna Says She's Not a Basher and Paula Says I'm No Judas
Truth or Dare at HISD.Trustee Larry Marshall denied any conflicts of interest in his trip to Costa Rica no matter what the Houston Chronicle says. Anna Eastman said she isn't a "teacher basher" even though she knows some people think she is. And Board President Paula Harris saluted her friend ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2011
HISD: Searches For Ways To Stanch Bleeding Budget, Mentions Taxes
Photo by Mandy OaklanderPaula Harris helmed an emergency HISD meeting this morning.This morning, an emergency meeting was called by HISD officials who are growing more desperate as severe budget cuts looms closer. About 10 parents sat in Pin Oak Middle School's cafeteria and listened to board ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Finances: No. 1 Cause of Marital Discord and HISD Trustee Testiness
HISD board starts sounding like the BickersonsHusbands and wives play this game all the time. They're short of money and need to put themselves on a stricter budget. They agree they can get by with the worldly goods they already have until better times. Resolute and united, they pause for a s ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Grier Calls 1st TAKS Tests for Apollo "Progress, Not Victory"
Spinning the TAKS resultsSuperintendent Terry Grier released Houston ISD's first-round state test scores for fifth and eighth graders on Thursday, acknowledging at the start of the press conference that the results for middle school students in the Apollo 20 pilot project were of the most int ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
HISD Takes a Breather From the Bad, Sad News; Gets $2.5 Million
Finally, some good newsIt was a moment so auspicious that it was deemed worthy of a hurry-up press conference at noon Monday. And why not -- a $2.5 million donation from Chase Bank to the Houston ISD's Apollo program is the best news Superintendent Terry Grier and his troops have had in a whi ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
It's 'Big Girl, Big Boy Time,' HISD's Paula Harris Says
HISDPaula Harris gets tough with fellow board members.In a lengthy and sometimes tense board meeting that brought Houston ISD trustee Juliet Stipeche to tears, trustee Carol Mims Galloway to call for a tax increase and announce that all was not hunky dory with the board, and board President P ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2011
HISD: Will Apollo 20 Become Apollo 60?
Senator Rodney EllisUnder a bill proposed by Texas Senator Rodney Ellis, the Houston ISD could open up its Apollo 20 program for low-performing schools to some 60 campuses or about 20 percent of all the district's schools, extending school days and school years beyond what's called for by the ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
News
February 17, 2011
Casualties of War
Parents who bought into the TAKS hype dealt blow at HISD meeting.
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Sen. Mario Gallegos Files "The Terry Grier Bill," Calling for Openness in Superintendent Searches
Mario Gallegos: Won't get fooled againTexas State Senator Mario Gallegos has filed a bill calling for public notice of finalists for a superintendent's position complete with two public forums designed to give any community -- not just its board of trustees -- a chance to check out a candidat ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2011
Oh Brother Grier, Where Art Thou?
Photo by Margaret DowningTerry Grier: Wheatley parents complain about his absenceThursday's Houston ISD school board meeting was packed and a significant portion of the crowd included those who wanted to talk about the recent removal of Wheatley High School assistant principal Sandra James Wa ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2011
Paula Harris Is New HISD Board President
Photo courtesy HISDPaula Harris, elected unanimouslyAs expected, Paula Harris has been elected the new president of the Houston school district's board of directors. The unanimous vote came early in a meeting that's still going on. Harris, who works in the oil industry, replaces Greg Meyers ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2010
HISD To Consider All-Girls School
An all-girls' school for HISD?The Houston school district is considering a school limited only to girls, a district spokesman says. A public meeting Monday night will discuss the possibility, Norm Uhl said. The district already has an all-boys charter school, but an organization called The ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
September 22, 2010
Fall Enrollment is Down at Nine Apollo 20 Schools in HISD
NASA's Apollo 20 never got off the gorundThis year, there are fewer kids enrolled at the nine middle and high schools in the Apollo 20 schools than there were at this time last year -- 810 fewer to be exact -- according to numbers provided to Hair Balls by the Houston ISD.This number doesn't come ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2010
Cold Hard Cash to Fifth Graders in HISD Who Do the Math
You did your homework? Cha-chingStudents at 25 Houston ISD schools -- and their parents -- will have a chance to earn cash by, get this: Doing their homework!"Why not?" was the consensus reached today by the seven trustees at a workshop meeting. Equipped with a $1.5 million private donation from ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
HISD Renews CEP, Few Questions Asked
ApprovedHouston school board trustees voted 6-1Thursday to renew HISD's contract with Community Education Partners. The roughly $14 million contract with the Nashville-based alternative schooling program for at-risk students had received harsh criticism from the League of United Latin ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
HISD Turns To Failed Principal For Advice on How to Handle the State Board of Education
Photo by Margaret DowningLawrence Allen (L) and Greg MeyersThe Houston ISD employees who were asked to draft a resolution asking the State Board of Education to step back from the changes it made recently in the proposed social studies curriculum for public school students, told the Houston s ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2010
HISD Employs Shazam-You're-a-Magnet Strategy In Effort To Save Schools
Photo by Margaret DowningUnder a proposal unveiled today by Superintendent Terry Grier and his staff, Jones High School, for years now one of the most academically troubled schools in the Houston school district, will be turned into a science, technology, engineering and math magnet with a specia ... More >>
News
March 18, 2010
Hair Balls: $10K Down The Drain
Plus: HISD May Say Good-bye to CEP
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
HISD Mulls How to Best Save Its Schools, And Ex-Board President Larry Marshall Still Tries To Run Meetings
Photo by Margaret DowningHISD Superintendent Terry GrierIn a district where eight of its high schools and 11 of its middle schools don't even have a school counselor, the Houston Independent School District trustees got together for an agenda meeting early Thursday morning to talk "transformatio ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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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