Last week when Hair Balls reported that LULAC (the League of United Latin American Citizens) had sent letters to the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts saying it should investigate Houston ISD for the amount of money it spends on two private alternative schools, we were told our figures were incorrect by HISD spokesman Norm Uhl.
The precise figure Uhl objected to most was 811. That represents the number of HISD students who have graduated from the two
​Robert Kimball, the former Houston ISD educator, who has spoken long, loudly -- and not positively -- about the two alternative schools operated in Houston by the for-profit Community Education Partners (where HISD parks its kids it deems bad), had every hope that Tuesday would see an end to the $4.7 million lawsuit filed against him by CEP.
Kimball and his lawyers had presented a motion for summary judgment, arguing among other things that it was ridiculous that C
