Republican political hostile takeover of HISD, disprivileged racial groups, student body, TX
Texas officials are using a pretext to take over control of the
Houston Independent School District.
The pretext
consists of one problem school that the city was improving.
State officials have not presented any plan to do better.
We can anticipate that they will make some aspects of the schools
worse, and I conjecture that that is their real goal. We must expect
deceit from Republicans.
The imposed state board will have the power to impose censorship, and
I expect it will use that to prompt racism and sexism and interfere
with sex education, as
DeMentis is doing in
Florida.
I expect Republicans will also ramp up the
school-to-prison pipeline.
With so many black students in that district, this will be a great
opportunity to put many of them in state prisons
and thus disenfranchise them.