Will HISD open its doors to more of the public when it votes on its budget Thursday for the 2023-24 school year?
According to the Urban Dictionary, the old philosophical exercise —"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound" — should best be understood as:"the ineffectiveness of unheard opinions or thoughts."
By reducing 400 seats to 35 in the public meeting room, decorum prevailed. Of course the board didn't get to hear what the other people were saying who weren't given mic time. The natural ebb and flow of a school board meeting had been dammed up. Board members didn't face first hand a quiet chorus of waving jazz hands in response to one speaker or another — with the exception of the few officials like State Rep.
It also makes sense that if Miles is going to continue with all his principal training sessions and install a new evaluation system for what makes a high-performing principal, that the district shouldn't continue to pay $5 million a year for an outside group to give leadership lessons. A large challenge remains the district's declining enrollment of the last six years. Miles was also asked about the magnet programs at some schools that aren't highly populated.
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