| HISD Headline News |
| Apollo 20 Students Get an Early Start to a Promising New School Year Students at the first nine campuses in the Apollo 20 project started school on Monday, August 16?a week ahead of other HISD students?and HISD?s superintendent and Board of Education members welcomed students back to a variety of innovative supports. |
| Board Adopts Strategic Direction: A Community Plan to Transform HISD The long-term plan for dramatically improving student achievement moved from the development stage to the implementation phase on August 12, when the Board of Education unanimously approved the district's Strategic Direction. |
| HISD Board Votes to Hold Election to Fill Vacant Seat At a special meeting on August 19, the trustees voted unanimously to hold a special election on November 2 to fill the vacancy left by former District VIII representative Diana Dávila. The filing deadline for candidates is 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 30. |
| Board Gets Update on Core Initiative of Effective Teachers At a workshop on August 19, trustees received an update on the district?s core initiative of placing an effective teacher in every classroom. Teachers, principals, parents, students, and members of the Houston community will have multiple opportunities to provide input before the final appraisal system is presented to the board for approval in the spring of 2011. |
| Apollo 20 Hailed as ?One of the Most Important Efforts Going on in America? Top education reformers Geoffrey Canada and Roland Fryer met in Houston on August 12 to discuss school reform and eliminating the achievement gap. |
| Trustee Paula Harris to Serve on Space Center Houston Board Harris, who has been named the chair of the education committee, will work with 23 other board members to oversee policies, programs, and initiatives at Space Center Houston. |
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