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Even as concerns rise from community members about financial decisions made by district leadership, the board of managers approved a bonus of $126,000 for Superintendent Miles. This is in addition to his annual salary of $380,000. [24]
Houston ISD's "West Region," which includes Walnut Bend and Revere, had about one-fifth of Houston ISD's schools but contained more than half of the 5,500 Katrina evacuees in Houston schools. At the start of the 2006-2007 school year, around 2,900 Hurricane Katrina evacuees were still enrolled in Houston ISD schools.
On June 1, 2023, Miles was appointed superintendent of Houston ISD, replacing Millard House II as part of the Houston Independent School District takeover by the Texas Education Agency. [12] [6] Miles started new Texas schools which were alleged to be losing money. Third Future Schools’ 2023 audit shows of the $25 million public tax dollars ...
According to HISD's teacher appraisal system the percentage of teachers at the school ranked as "needs improvement" or "ineffective" was 37% for the years 2011–2016, among the highest of any HISD school, while the overall HISD average was 16%. [5] c. 2019 over 40% of the teachers in each particular school year are not present in the following ...
In December 1991, Austin was one of the largest high schools in Texas, with 2,669 students. Due to the overcrowding, by that month Houston ISD trustees approved a plan to open a new high school in 1995 instead of in 1997. [11] In 1992 superintendent Frank Petruzielo asked Jose Treviño to become the principal of Austin High.
The HISD Vanguard program was designed to serve the needs of gifted and talented students. From fall 1977 to spring 2002, the HISD High School Vanguard Program was a separate program located at Jesse Jones High School. [6]
It formerly housed Sam Houston High School; at a later point the building housed the HISD headquarters. [25] The building is five stories and 168,000 square feet (15,600 m 2 ) in size, [ 26 ] at a cost of $88.4 million.
The school discovered large-scale cheating in an English IV final examination in 2012. [4] The school invalidated all English IV final exam results, allowing students who did not cheat to have a final grade without the final or to take the final again. The students who cheated received scores of zero. [5]