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1of4Teachers Patricia Allen, 65, and Marcela Cook, 58, hold US signs at a press conference led by Mayor Sylvester Turner and other community leaders who want to save the Houston Independent School District from a state takeover and protect public education on Friday, March 3. March 2023 in Houston, TX.Raquel Natalicchio/Staff photographerview moreShow less2of4Teachers Patricia Allen, 65, and Marcela Cook, 58, hold US signs at a press conference led by Mayor Sylvester Turner and other community leaders who want to save the Houston Independent School District from a state takeover and protect public education on Friday, March 3. March 2023 in Houston, TX.Raquel Natalicchio/Staff photographerview moreShow less3of4Teachers Patricia Allen, 65, and Marcela Cook, 58, hold US signs at a press conference led by Mayor Sylvester Turner and other community leaders who want to save the Houston Independent School District from a state takeover and protect public education on Friday, March 3. March 2023 in Houston, TX.Raquel Natalicchio/Staff photographerview moreShow less4of4Houston Independent School District Superintendent Millard House II will hold his second State of the Schools address on Friday, April 3. March 2023 at the Hilton Americas-Houston in Houston. The school district also celebrated its centennial of educational success.Yi-Chin Lee/Staff photographerview moreShow less
A Houston ISD trustee said some board members plan to confront the Texas Education Agency about the impending state takeover at a meeting in Austin later this month that will be hosted by the Houston Chapter of the NAACP.
“We’ve been in this fight before we even got into office,” Trustee Patricia Allen said of the board. – The board has been working since we were elected. We have a lone governor coach, a TEA program — we’ve tried our best, hired the best superintendent.”
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They plan to travel to Austin on March 20 after spring break, although Mayor Sylvester Turner announced last week that he received multiple reports that TEA plans to install a board and a new superintendent as soon as this week.
“If you can’t come to us, we’ll come to you,” Allen said.
TEA has not confirmed or commented on its plans for how it will move forward with HISD.
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Other leaders also made promises to get answers. NAACP President Bishop James Dixon said he plans to call a meeting with TEA Commissioner Mike Morath. U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee said she intends to bring the matter to the attention of the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Education.
Teacher Patricia Allen, 65, cries during a press conference led by Mayor Sylvester Turner and other community leaders who want to save the Houston Independent School District from a state takeover and protect public education Friday, March 3. March 2023 in Houston, TX.Raquel Natalicchio/Staff photographer
