Education
BY WESLEY GARDNER
District authorizes sale of 230 acres Houston ISD board managers approved the sale of five district-owned properties, totaling more than 230 acres of land, at the board’s Dec. 11 meeting. The details The properties approved to be sold are: • 2.3 acres with unused office space located at 1102 Telephone Road, Houston • 3.3 acres with the former Harper Alternative School facility at 3200 Center St., Houston • 3.3 acres with former development center at 4001 Hardy St., Houston • 14.5 acres with the former Terrell Alterna- tive Middle School at 4610 E. Crosstimbers St., Houston • 208 acres of undeveloped land dubbed the North Forest acreage.
HISD to consider ending graphic design program Houston ISD board managers will consider ending the district’s graphic design program at three high schools at the board’s Jan. 15 meeting. The setup Board managers were originally scheduled to vote on ending the program at Heights, Kashmere and Northside high schools during the board’s Dec. 11 meeting before opting to table the vote until January. If the programs are ended at the high schools, HISD Chief Academic Officer Kristen Hole said the district would instead send interested students to the Barbara Jordan Career Center to take the courses. Hole said the effort to shutter the programs is to provide students with more opportunities to gain higher-wage employment after graduation. What they’re saying At the Dec. 11 meeting, Christiana Thomas, a
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senior at Heights High School, said she worried that ending the graphic design program would result in more teachers losing their jobs with the district. “Cutting these programs would also force you to either fire or move those teachers, and they are people who are pillars of our community,” she said. What’s next HISD board managers will take final action on the graphic design programs during the Jan. 15 meeting.
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