Is control ever relinquished back to the locals once taken? This seems like the education version of the EPA Superfund sites, just a way to guarantee high salaries for govt. leeches without any hope of fixing the problem.

Hopefully the state can do this with the city and the county also. Lots to cleanup and lots of people need to see the inside of a jail cell.

Some conversation about it, though this thread doesn't include an article

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3365293

We always hear about the importance of minority and women's in management…..so when the house of cards falls and there is systematic corruption I wonder who the administrators are and how many received their advanced degrees from a mail order program.

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Can TEA be authorized to take over the entire City of Houston? Maybe start with the corruption around airport concessions contracts?

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I laughed
Good one
Sadly, a good one.

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We always hear about the importance of minority and women's in management…..so when the house of cards falls and there is systematic corruption I wonder who the administrators are and how many received their advanced degrees from a mail order program.

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It's fascinating to see how many Ed.D's there are in school districts today, all requiring everyone to call them "Doctor So and So."

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Hopefully the state can do this with the city and the county also. Lots to cleanup and lots of people need to see the inside of a jail cell.

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The state of Texas can take over a city or county if the legislature decides it is necessary. The legislature could even dissolve a city or county completely, and either temporarily implement direct control from Austin (as in the capital, not the city), or merge it with another entity.

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FCBlitz said:

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We always hear about the importance of minority and women's in management…..so when the house of cards falls and there is systematic corruption I wonder who the administrators are and how many received their advanced degrees from a mail order program.

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It's fascinating to see how many Ed.D's there are in school districts today, all requiring everyone to call them "Doctor So and So."

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you mean like this

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FCBlitz said:

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We always hear about the importance of minority and women's in management…..so when the house of cards falls and there is systematic corruption I wonder who the administrators are and how many received their advanced degrees from a mail order program.

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It's fascinating to see how many Ed.D's there are in school districts today, all requiring everyone to call them "Doctor So and So."

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That is Dr. Jill Biden to you, sir.

Administration has grown to the point where it's a job in and of itself without actually handling anything related to schooling. It's absolutely ridiculous.

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But maybe it will at least clean up the corruption that is rampant within the district when it comes to how they spend money. Wouldn't be surprised if some people end up going to prison once the books get audited.

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Yeah, I imagine there are some administrators and board members puckered up pretty good right now. Wonder how many papers get shredded and hard drives mysteriously crash over the next couple of weeks?

This needed to happen. It's the only hope of anything ever changing. It sends a pretty strong signal to other big districts to get their act together or else.

I guess all those out of state basketball games Booker t was taking finally broke them…

They did this to La Marque ISD several years ago. Texas City eventually absorbed the schools.

Pretty sure a lot of the worst of the trouble makers are long gone. Doesn't mean they can't be tracked down, but I think a lot of changes were made several years ago in an attempt to avoid this.

Even with a LOT of improvement looks like TEA says it wasn't enough.

I thought the STAR tests haven't been counting for the past several years.

180,000 students
25,000 employees

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180,000 students
25,000 employees

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What would happen if they just dissolved it and redraw lines for adjacent districts to absorb?

The scores and graduation rates in those neighboring districts would plummet and TEA would need to take over those as wells.

Seriously though, dissolving would be best. Pass out vouchers and let the parents and kids decide what to do with money. Then use border wall leftovers to fortify 610 perimeter.

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The scores and graduation rates in those neighboring districts would plummet and TEA would need to take over those as wells.

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I used to live in SA.
They have 2 million people and like 45 (sarcasm, but not by much) ISDs up there.
Really?
Industry consolidation creates economies of scale, but NOT IN ISDs?

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Seriously though, dissolving would be best. Pass out vouchers and let the parents and kids decide what to do with money. Then use border wall leftovers to fortify 610 perimeter.

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You are right.
I wonder if this would happen faster if we severed athletics from schools.
I am all for privatization.
Think about it. FKAFTC/Tarpon Sports Leagues would have the rule "Girls Play Girls and Boys Play Boys" thus eliminating all this trans-action. Non of this "government" rule creep.

We used to teach kids at the local level, typically in one room per town / hood, and it included parental oversight, involvement and plenty of practical education such as cleaning stables, sawing lumber, and mending fences.

Local control of rearing children is a must. Protect against the parents who do not give a **** about their kids, and stay the **** out of my way as I raise my child. I am damn sure he and his mother are more than capable of raising him / her / they as a chronically misgendered fairy kitten paranormal anomaly all on our own.

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Local control of rearing children is a must.

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Dude!! That sounds like that "it takes a village" stuff democRATS push.

Parents should rear their kids.

It does take a village because **** happens and parents die or decide to do incredibly stupid, irresponsible things.

But a village is a collective community of support. Your village may be your family, your circle of friends, your neighborhood or your church.