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Margaret Downing

Margaret Downing is the editor-in-chief who oversees the Houston Press newsroom and its online publication. She frequently writes on a wide range of subjects.

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HISD Scrambles As it Admits Its EOY Assessment Data is Wrong [UPDATED]

By Margaret Downing
Apr 26, 2024

In the midst of contract negotiations, Houston ISD sent out an email today saying that end of year performances summaries have been "incorrectly calculated." And to hold on till they get it right. One teacher told us teachers across the district have received three emails about the appraisal scores being...
Houston Grand Opera's The Sound of Music Begins This Weekend. Yodelayheehoo!

By Margaret Downing
Apr 25, 2024

Grammy Award-winning opera mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has never "officially" yodeled before but she'll be doing a bit of that on the Wortham stage starting Friday as she plays the lead role of Maria in the Houston Grand Opera production of The Sound of Music. It's the classic tale of Sister Maria,...
Column: Opting Out of the STAAR Test Requires a Law Degree Or Iron Will

By Margaret Downing
Apr 24, 2024

After day after day watching her fourth grade daughter cry, Tereza and her husband finally got to the bottom of it. Daniela was afraid of taking the STAAR test this year. The prospect had become overwhelming to her. As described by her mother, Daniela is an outgoing girl who loves art,...
Whose Story is It in The Father at 4th Wall Theatre Co.

By Margaret Downing
Apr 22, 2024

In The Father, we meet André and a brief resume of his life is quickly sketched out. He lives in a Paris apartment with his daughter Anne and her husband. He is a retired dancer. Or is he a retired engineer and Anne has just come for a visit with her boyfriend?...
HGO's Don Giovanni Offers Sex, Deceit and a Final Reckoning All Wrapped Up in Mozart's Music

By Margaret Downing
Apr 20, 2024

“I feel I’ve seen this set before,” one longtime Houston Grand Opera subscriber said at intermission on Opening Night of Don Giovanni. She had. HGO has retained the same whirling box of a building used in its 2019 production of Mozart’s classic anti-hero opera. Same set, same projections – some...