HISD formally cedes control of the district to TEA in Thursday night's board meeting.
Late in the night, by the time the Texas Education Agency representative got up to explain the state takeover of Houston ISD there were just a handful of audience members left at Thursday school board meeting. Not that there had been that many in attendance to begin with.
Morath, as has been true in all the earlier heated TEA community meetings, did not show up but dispatched another one of his deputy commissioners to handle the questions and any heat that might arise. . Essentially, however, they were whistling into the wind. As evidenced Thursday night, the end of HISD governance as we know it, will be going out with a whimper, not a bang.
As Deputy Commissioner Lecholop made his way through the timeline, he didn't have to contend with the shouts and heated accusations from the crowds that were present for the four TEA community meetings. But he did end up standing in the dock for a very long time between his presentation and the questions from board members. His highlights:
- TEA and Commissioner Morath will not be determining what is done in HISD; it will be the new superintendent and the Board of Managers. .
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