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Report about charter schools founded by Houston ISD superintendent Mike Miles prompts calls for investigation
Spectrum News’ Brett Shipp reported that Colorado-based Third Future Schools, which Miles founded and led until he was appointed to lead Houston ISD last summer, sent millions in taxpayer money from its school in Odessa to another network school in Colorado that needed financial assistance. The Texas Education Agency says it is reviewing the matter.
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Houston Matters
How a playwright unearthed a lost Thornton Wilder play and brought it to the stage in Houston
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Healthcare
Houston-area DACA recipients can now apply for healthcare through federal marketplace
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Education News
Klein ISD adopts resolution to strengthen security in wake of child trafficking arrest
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City of Houston
City begins collecting debris in Kingwood after storms damage hundreds of houses
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Court
Houston woman pleads guilty in Henry Cuellar bribery investigation
Election 2024
Texas House speakership hangs in balance in GOP primary runoff between Dade Phelan and David Covey
Phelan placed a close second behind Covey, a former Orange County Republican Party chairman, in the first round of the primary for East Texas’ House District 21 in March.
City of Houston
- Houston New marker in Houston’s Third Ward honors longtime church leader Rev. Edward Coates
- Houston Matters Houston City Council member: Next police chief should be data-driven, transparent and ‘can take responsibility’
- Public Safety Houston Mayor John Whitmire calls attention to poor conditions at Kingwood fire stations
- Infrastructure City of Houston, METRO break ground on improvement project that will stretch six miles on Westheimer
- City of Houston Controller Hollins: Paying for firefighters’ settlement will likely require new revenues and budget cuts
Texas
- Education News Houston-area lawmaker, other Democrats in Texas House call for special session to increase public school funding
- Fort Bend Outgoing Arcola mayor acted outside authority in removing councilwoman, judge rules
- School shooting Trial for civil lawsuit filed by victims of Santa Fe High School shooting rescheduled for July
- Elections Two races for seats on Harris County appraisal district board headed to runoff election
- Weather Officials urging Houston-area residents to report flood damage to qualify for federal funding for recovery
Most Viewed
- Woman suing Santa Fe officers over fire ant bites asserts they violated her rights
- More than 23,000 without power across Houston Monday afternoon
- Cy-Fair ISD trustees vote to omit textbook chapters about topics such as climate change and vaccines
- Layoffs at HISD (May 13, 2024)
- Houston ISD parents protest amid district-wide job cuts, campus leadership changes
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- Education News Houston-area lawmaker, other Democrats in Texas House call for special session to increase public school funding
- Civil Rights Galveston County voting rights case set to go before full 5th Circuit appellate court
- Houston Matters Why Lizzie Fletcher believes in finding common ground even with the political divisiveness in Congress
- Fort Bend Outgoing Arcola mayor acted outside authority in removing councilwoman, judge rules
Education News
- Education News Transparency questioned after Cy-Fair ISD trustees vote to remove textbook chapters
- Education News Katy ISD teacher arrested, charged for allegedly possessing child pornography
- HISD Houston ISD parents protest amid district-wide job cuts, campus leadership changes
- Education News Houston-area lawmaker, other Democrats in Texas House call for special session to increase public school funding
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