Anna Bauman

HISD teachers face enormous pressure to implement a standardized instructional model that leaves some emergent bilingual students floundering in the classroom.

The district said the removals were related to an investigation into inappropriate behavior between adults and children at the campus.

Lamar High School went into lockdown Thursday following a reported bomb threat. Police found no suspicious devices, and the lockdown has been lifted.

HISD teachers say they feel intimidated and threatened by the stricter enforcement of leave and absence policies in HISD.

Here is a recap of the eight biggest changes introduced by Miles in his first roughly six months of running Texas’ largest school district.

As a creative child, Roni Dean Burren always insisted that her family make space in the car or at the dining room table for her imaginary friends. Her cousin Brandi Brown thought it was silly at the time. But decades later, she can see that Burren was perhaps paving the way for a practice she would continue throughout her life: Making space for those deemed invisible or insignificant in the world. “She always made sure that they were seen and that they were heard and, most importantly, that th…

State-appointed superintendent Mike Miles has spoken with more than two dozen elected leaders during his time running Houston ISD, including the top officials in the state: Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, according to the district. Miles was appointed in June to run the largest school system in Texas by Education Commissioner Mike Morath, an Abbott appointee, who imposed a state takeover on the district, as required by state law, due to long-running academic and special education fai…

A new advocacy group is launching Wednesday with plans to champion many of the reforms introduced by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles this year in Houston ISD. The Coalition for Advancing Student Excellence, or CASE, plans to aggressively support measures that they deem are good for HISD students while providing constructive feedback to district leadership as needed, said Max Moll, a public affairs specialist and spokesperson for the nonprofit. “We’re going to use our voice to champi…

Superintendents across Texas take home hefty salaries while running school systems with student populations that range from several hundred to tens of thousands of children. Many of the top earners in the 2022-2023 school year were in the Houston area, according to data from the Texas Education Agency. Cypress Fairbanks ISD Superintendent Mark Henry clinched the top spot with a base salary of $521,003, making him the only superintendent in the state paid more than half a million dollars last ye…

Hundreds of students in Houston-area school districts were sent to disciplinary alternative education programs in the first three months of a new Texas law meant to curb youth vaping, a move that some school administrators and advocates say is too punitive. The new state law, House Bill 114, requires public schools to remove any student from class who is caught with an e-cigarette and send them to a separate center designated for students in serious trouble. The law went into effect Sept. 1. EDU…