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Wright v. Houston Independent School District, 486 F.2d 137 (5th Cir. 1973) [1] was an American legal case brought by a parent of a student in the Houston Independent School District in Houston, Texas suing on behalf of her daughter and fellow students to prevent the district from teaching evolution as fact and without reference to alternative theories. [2]
The Houston Independent School District takeover is a 2023 takeover of the state's largest school district by the Texas Education Agency, replacing the superintendent and elected board of trustees with a board of managers and a new superintendent appointed by the Texas commissioner of education.
The headquarters of the Houston Independent School District, one of the largest school districts in the United States. An independent school district (ISD) is a type of school district in some US states for primary and secondary education that operates as an entity independent and separate from any municipality or county, and only under the oversight of the respective state government.
FILE - People hold up signs at a news conference, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Houston while protesting the proposed takeover of the city's school district by the Texas Education Agency.
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. [3] Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities in addition to some unincorporated areas.
The data suggest that for every incident of vandalism referred to local law enforcement from schools without regular contact with SROs, 1.53 are referred in schools with regular contact with SROs, with p < 0.001. This is after controlling for state statutes that require school officials to refer students to law enforcement for committing the ...
The Texas Education Agency specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform; [13] parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.
The school was founded in 2016 by Dominique Side and Cara DeBusk and opened in January of that year. [3]Its original campus was in Independence Heights. [4] [5] As of 2017 the school had 23 students; two of them identified as transgender, and the student body originated from various socioeconomic and racial groups. [4]