Can you speak at the Board of Managers meeting on Thursday? Houston CVPE is organizing a People's Filibuster at the HISD Board of Managers meeting this Thursday, October 8th. Most people will read one minute from the 79-page Commission on the Takeover Report, a scathing report produced after a year of research by the Commission. Others will read their own speech. Here is the agenda packet. Read more

[en español clic aquí] People who don’t understand how the state takeover is undermining student learning for Houston schoolchildren are saying, “Yes, Miles is authoritarian, but look at those ratings. Kids must be learning.”   Read more

[en español clic aquí] The Legislature writes the laws. The Texas Education Agency writes the rules that implement them. Changing state law requires the Legislature to pass a new law. But the commissioner can change TEA rules at any time, and those rules are not always consistent with legislative intent.    Read more

[en español clic aquí] Sound the alarm. Save our children from Mike Miles. RSVP today to speak at the October 8 Board of Managers meeting at 5 pm and later. We will reach out to you before the Oct 4-7 window to register to speak on HISD’s website.    Read more

Join us this Saturday at 2 pm to talk with three ELECTED HISD trustees about current issues, the upcoming election, and the road forward. RSVP at houstoncvpe.org/events. Read more

[en español clic aquí] Speak out. Push back. Bring the truth. 🔥 On Sept 10th, Mike Miles is the keynote speaker at Leadership Houston. Seriously? Protest during your lunch hour at 6300 Irvington Blvd. Let’s show them what Houstonians think of his leadership 📢 Speak at the September 10 HISD Board meeting starting at 5 pm and counter Mike Miles’ false narrative with the facts and your firsthand experience. Here is the agenda packet and step-by-step instructions to register to speak. Get signed up for any agenda item 1-18 before Labor Day to honor workers.   Read more

[en español clic aquí] HISD and Mike Miles are planning to pave over recently renovated Grimes Park in Sunnyside to build a new Career & Technology center. Read more in Sunnyside blindsided by plans to demolish a renovated park. Read more

[en español clic aquí] In this issue: How to fight for inclusive, full history for Texas schoolchildren and push back against state takeovers.    Read more

A new investigation reveals what’s behind HISD’s improved ratings: “Exclusive data from the Texas Education Agency obtained by the Houston Chronicle shows that without students completing those (college prep) courses, every high school in Miles’ (NES) reform model would have dropped by at least one letter grade in 2025. The district would have had five D-rated and two F-rated high schools – undercutting Miles’ claim of no F-rated campuses.”   Read more

[en español clic aquí] A longtime principal friend said if you do something that helps kids and helps the school ratings, do that thing. But if it helps the rating and harms kids, do not do that thing.   Read more