HISD Board of Education President Wanda Adams is hosting a series of District IX community meetings this month to discuss the district’s Achieve 180 initiative, a research-based action plan to support, strengthen, and empower underserved and underperforming schools. Nine schools located in District IX are included in the initiative. During the Oct. 9 meeting at Madison High School, which is […]
Wraparound services are key part of Achieve 180 plan to support and empower struggling schools The Houston Independent School District Board of Education tonight will consider a policy designed to reinforce the district’s commitment to providing students with wraparound services to better support their social and emotional needs outside the classroom. The proposed policy – […]
Carranza and COO Brian Busby surprised at monthly principals meeting HISD Superintendent of Schools Richard Carranza surprised all district principals with a special ‘”HISD Strong” award at their monthly leadership meeting on Oct. 4, but then school leaders turned the surprise back on him. While in the midst of being honored by Carranza for her […]
U.S. Department of Education funding to target teacher recruitment, STEM programs The Houston Independent School District has been awarded three grants, including one that is believed to be the largest grant the district has ever received. Each of the three grants is from the U.S. Department of Education. The largest totals $47 million and will […]
Students will have opportunity to compete for more than $32 million in scholarships Seventy-two seniors from six Houston Independent School District high schools have qualified as semifinalists in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program, earning one of the top academic honors in the nation. HISD had 51 semifinalists last year. The students are among 16,000 […]
[photoshelter-gallery g_id=”G00007JwPOGiZXw8″ g_name=”20170926-Yao-Ming-visits-Hilliard-Elementary” width=”600″ f_fullscreen=”t” bgtrans=”t” pho_credit=”iptc” twoup=”f” f_bbar=”t” f_bbarbig=”f” fsvis=”f” f_show_caption=”t” crop=”f” f_enable_embed_btn=”t” f_htmllinks=”t” f_l=”t” f_send_to_friend_btn=”f” f_show_slidenum=”t” f_topbar=”f” f_show_watermark=”t” img_title=”casc” linkdest=”c” trans=”xfade” target=”_self” tbs=”5000″ f_link=”t” f_smooth=”f” f_mtrx=”t” f_ap=”t” f_up=”f” height=”400″ btype=”old” bcolor=”#CCCCCC” ] Basketball star Yao Ming toured the flooded Hilliard Elementary School on Sept. 26 to show his support for HISD students suffering from the aftermath of Hurricane […]
Superintendent Richard Carranza participated in a live town hall meeting at UH Downtown on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, assuring those in attendance that HISD schools are a safe place for all students – regardless of their immigration status. The meeting, sponsored by ABC13 and Univision 45, was a non-partisan conversation on […]
Event to help students apply for college, financial aid [su_vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/245445928″ width=”640″ height=”480″] The HISD Office of College and Career Readiness and Multilingual Programs departments will be hosting the third-annual Dream Summit to assist students with the college application and financial aid processes on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hattie Mae […]
Houston MSTC seniors on Monday filed into the school library, past patriotic banners and toward tables dotted with voter registration forms. As part of their government classes, the students were learning about the importance of registering to vote and how the voting process works. They also were the main audience for a news conference in which Mi Familia Vota (MFV) – joined by HISD Superintendent Richard Carranza, Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, and […]
[photoshelter-gallery g_id=”G000046YMZ8nKVs8″ g_name=”20170915-Holland-MS-Robinson-ES-book-giveaway” width=”600″ f_fullscreen=”t” bgtrans=”t” pho_credit=”iptc” twoup=”f” f_bbar=”t” f_bbarbig=”f” fsvis=”f” f_show_caption=”t” crop=”f” f_enable_embed_btn=”t” f_htmllinks=”t” f_l=”t” f_send_to_friend_btn=”f” f_show_slidenum=”t” f_topbar=”f” f_show_watermark=”t” img_title=”casc” linkdest=”c” trans=”xfade” target=”_self” tbs=”5000″ f_link=”t” f_smooth=”f” f_mtrx=”t” f_ap=”t” f_up=”f” height=”400″ btype=”old” bcolor=”#CCCCCC” ] When Robinson Elementary School flooded, their neighborhood schools (Holland Middle and Pleasantville Elementary) stepped up to take in displaced students and their teachers. In order […]