Texas officials have announced a takeover of Houston’s nearly 200,000-student school district. The decision Wednesday follows allegations of misconduct by school trustees and chronically low academic scores at one of the nearly 50 high schools in the na
The takeover in Texas’ largest city comes as state GOP leaders around the country seek to assert power over Democratic strongholds. Just last week, the head of Oklahoma’s public schools threatened a takeover of theTulsa school district. Such takeovers gener...
Five years after the 2002 Philadelphia takeover, areport foundthat the city had seen “substantial districtwide gains in the proportion of students achieving proficiency since the 2002 state takeover” – but it also noted “after four years, the gains of its low-achieving schools (constituting ...