About 200,000 HISD students are expected to return to school for their first day of classes on Monday, August 27. HISD Superintendent Terry Grier and members of the HISD Board of Education will visit with students, teachers and principals at two campuses to personally welcome them to back to school on Monday, August 27 from […]
About 200,000 Houston Independent School District students are expected to return to school for the first day of classes on Monday, Aug. 27. Students from five middle schools and four high schools in the district’s Apollo 20 school turnaround program will get a one-week head start on Aug. 20 when their school year begins. The […]
Houston voters will decide in November whether to approve a bond referendum to modernize outdated high school buildings and build new schools to meet students’ needs across the city. The HISD Board of Education approved calling an election on the bond proposal by a vote of 8-1. Trustee Greg Meyers voted against the proposal. The […]
Houston ISD mourns the loss of former HISD teacher and administrator Felix Cook. Please join us in sharing your memories of this Houston education pioneer by posting in the comments section below. Felix Cook was a teacher and administrator at HISD for 36 years, starting in the 1940s. He served as a teacher and coach […]
A revised 2012 bond proposal presented to the HISD Board of Education on Thursday would modernize outdated high schools across the city. The proposal would: Provide new campuses for 20 high schools Austin Bellaire Davis DeBakey Eastwood Furr High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Jordan Lamar Lee Madison Milby North Early College Sam […]
The 2012 bond proposal includes $64.5 million to rebuild DeBakey High School for Health Professions. The new campus would be located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center and would provide students with expanded access to health care and research facilities. DeBakey is one several HISD magnet and specialty schools that would be rebuilt […]
The HISD Board of Education is meeting to discuss a proposal for rebuilding high schools across the city. Here are some highlights from the discussion, which you can follow on Twitter, @HoustonISD: Staff has spent weeks scrutinizing and fine-tuning the initial $1.89 billion proposal for rebuilding and modernizing schools. Adjustments have been made to the […]
For two weeks in June at Gregory-Lincoln Education Center, teachers and administrators gathered for a team building and planning event, “The 48 Hour Summer Teaching Institute.” For 6 hours a day over an 8 day period, the group participated in team building, planning, literature review, and shared vision exercises. One of the highlights of the institute […]
HISD currently has hundreds of openings for motivated teachers who are invested in making an impact on student achievement. Candidates who submit an application by August 13 will be eligible to start teaching in the fall. While vacancies caused by voluntary resignations and retirements exist in all areas, the highest need for teachers exists in […]
District’s graduation and dropout rates reach best levels under the modern accountability system HISD’s streak of declining dropout rates and increasing graduation rates hit four years for the class of 2011, according to preliminary Class of 2011 figures released by the Texas Education Agency. HISD’s latest dropout rate of 11.8 percent and four-year graduation rate […]