Houston ISD teachers voice complaints about NED, state takeover

Published: Aug 22, 2024 Duration: 00:02:06 Category: News & Politics
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We're back now at 717 and tempers flared as teachers voiced their concerns over Houston ISD's state takeover. So Shelby Rose joins us live from City Hall right now with more on what took place last night. What has them so fired up? Yes. Well, the purpose of bringing the Houston Federation of Teachers before the Labor Committee within Houston City Council, we're told, is to give a voice to those who may have not been able to or just too scared to speak during regular Houston City Council meetings. So the union did bring forth a presentation covering a wide range of topics, not a single one off the table. Looking into the issues, both HisD staff and teachers have faced since the state takeover, they went over turnover. Since then more than 5000 out of roughly 11,000 teachers have left. There have been 154 principal changes across 141 HisD campuses, which accounts for more than half of the total schools. There has also been a loss of wraparound specialists, who provide students with resources for a more stable learning environment that number went from 270 to now just 40. This presentation also went over the libraries at HisD. Those programs have been eliminated from all NES schools as well as others. Only 40 library programs now remain in the district. There was thousands of books removed from these libraries, thousands of books that were bought with taxpayer money that we don't know where they went. Some of them were thrown away. We found people calling us, telling them, telling us that they were in the dumpsters. Others, we they just disappeared from overnight. Another issues raised include the lack of debris cleanup since Hurricane Beryl and overgrown landscaping in general, as well as the extra hours teachers who specifically work at any schools have had to

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