Opinion: We spoke to 28 education experts. Plans for reopening Houston-area schools are impossible.
We experience cognitive dissonance when we hold contradictory ideas. Experiencing these inconsistencies tends to be stressful and disorienting. In order to regain a sense of balance, we often engage in self-deception and ignore the reality of a situation.
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Students Should Never Be Pepper-Sprayed at School
Our students deserve more social workers, nurses, mental health professionals, and librarians and fewer police.
It is time to divest from school policing and to invest in our students and communities.
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Sign up to speak against DOI
Demand that the board discontinue the District of Innovation process at the HISD Public Hearing on Thursday May 28 at 5 pm. The chart at the bottom shows where we are in the process.
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DOI is an Unnecessary Solution to a Manufactured Problem
On Thursday night, the HISD School Board and the interim superintendent missed an opportunity. No! That is too kind. They violated their moral imperative to come together for the public good in this time of crisis.
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Energized to Exploit
Researched and written by Sarah Terrell and Ann Eagleton
The HISD Board of Trustees is set to vote on renewing the in-district charter school contracts for Energized for Excellence Academy and Energized for STEM Academy at the May 14, 2020 board meeting. (Agenda item F-2).
Read moreDOI proposal offers no real solutions for recovery in the aftermath of the Coronavirus
The HISD District of Innovation (DOI) proposal is a dangerous and unnecessary distraction from facing the problems laid bare by Coronavirus.
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DOI should be DOA
DOI should be DOA. District of innovation status allows a school district to circumvent state education standards that protect students, families and teachers. These include exemptions that allow a district to abolish class size limits, abolish due process rights of parents and students in discipline proceedings, hire teachers without the protection of a contract, hire uncertified teachers, and change the school start date.
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Microscale Mutual Aid School Projects
Will you participate in one or more microscale mutual aid projects to help students and families who are being harmed by the inequity divide widened by this pandemic? This is a collaboration between teachers/staff who are CVPE/HFT members and CVPE parents, teachers, students and community members.
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Texas Schools Must Not Be Rated
Schools, jobs, and our very lives are on hold. School accountability A-F ratings must be put on hold as well.
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Governor, Don't rate our schools this year
Schools are feeding students and families, offering distance learning, providing emotional and social support, and looking out for our communities. They should not have to be worried about STAAR and school accountability too.
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