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The HISD board meeting, as community members gather around to address the board of managers.

Changing the Community: Looking inside HISD’s board meetings

By Anjali Martinez, Editor-in-chief April 3, 2024

On March 21, families, students and teachers from all over the Houston Independent School District protested for hours before gathering inside the HISD board auditorium for an almost four-hour board meeting. Upon...

Cell phone "pockets." Even before the ban, teachers were given tools to regulate phone usage.

HISD’s cell phone ban: Mixed opinions from students and teachers

By Natalia Nguyen and Neela Ravi February 21, 2024

On Tuesday, Feb. 6, Carnegie began enforcing a cell phone policy banning cell phone usage on school campuses for all students across the Houston Independent School District (HISD). This policy was officially...

HISD's most recent post about the change in the 2022-23 school year.

HISD adds an additional week to the 2022-23 school year

By Roxell Bonilla, Sports Editor March 31, 2023

HISD announced a recent change to the school year on March 22 and extended it one week due to students missing one too many days of school. HISD Superintendent Willard Shed hopes that the extension of...

Harris County issues a red COVID alert while HISD resumes school as usual.

Op-Ed: HISD needs to return to remote learning before its “return to normal”

By Ava Lim and Brooke J Ferrell February 2, 2022

Imagine breathing through a narrow straw. For a second. For five seconds. For five minutes. Five hours. Five days. A tight band is wrapped around your chest and every breath brings a new wave of fire into...

The HISD Dashboard reports 71 cases before the district reopens campuses to students October 19.

HISD Moves COVID Threat to Level 2 as 41% of Students Return to the Classrooms District-Wide

By Jonathon Morales and Diego Gonzalez October 14, 2020

After six months of lockdown, students are finally getting the chance to go back to school. HISD has moved its COVID Gauge Level from the Red Level 1 at more than 7% positive cases rate to the Orange Level...

TX Gov. Abbott visits Trump in the White House May 7.

Timeline: From Trump’s call with Gov Abbott to HISD’s school reopening

By Thomas Briones, Cameron Hart, and Andres Pargas October 14, 2020

Only one month after the pandemic was declared in the U.S., President Trump has pushed states to reopen schools, even as the number of new weekly COVID cases rise. April 27- 29,886: U.S. Average COVID-19...

TEA Commissioner Mike Morath announces the takeover of HISD at a State Capitol hearing.

Anger. Hope. Confusion. TEA Takeover Leaves CVHS Admin and Staff with More Questions than Answers

By Andrew T Mai, Staff Writer November 20, 2019

The time that HISD has been dreading for months has come. As of November 6, the TEA or Texas Education Agency, under Commissioner Mike Morath, has announced that they plan to take over HISD. Many schools,...

Amid Potential State Takeover of HISD, Two Students Explore Inequality at Neighborhood School

Amid Potential State Takeover of HISD, Two Students Explore Inequality at Neighborhood School

By Ema Wilson and Cameron Hart October 21, 2019

CVHS freshman Sha takes the loud, crowded bus every day from CVHS in Montrose to her stop in Gulfton, a largely low-income community of color. She quickly gets off, starting to walk to her apartment. The...

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