Largest School District in Texas Eliminates Libraries, Converts Them to Disciplinary Centers

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58. I wonder if this is the result of the Texas Lege....

...recently "taking over" the administration of HISD? As I understood it, that power grab was not final, but this story, while it doesn't mention the takeover, suggests it's a done deal. This would be Republicans thinking they know better than Democrats how to teach kids. HISD operates in blue Houston, and some schools have fared worse than others on test scores and graduation rates, naturally. You will never have every single school in a district as large as HISD performing at the same high level. Schools reflect income disparities of their areas. Sadly, mostly black schools have never received the same level of resources that mostly white schools do, even under Democrats. Republicans paint HISD as "out of control" and "failing" when a few schools in poorer neighborhoods are not doing as well as others in richer neighborhoods. They use those poorer schools as reasons to take over the district, but Texas Republicans are not going to do a single fucking thing to try to improve those troubled schools, except shit like this: replace libraries with detention centers.

The GOP has become a malevolent, malignant party of racists and misogynists.