Domingo Morel: The State Takeover of Houston Schools Is about Race and Power, Not School Improvement
Domingo Morel is a professor of political science at Rutgers University who has studied school takeovers across the nation. He is the author of Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy.
It is a manufactured crisis. It is a theft of political power, and it is based on race.
If the state of Texas had its way, the state would be in the process of taking overthe Houston Independent School District.
But a judge temporarily blocked the takeover on Jan. 8, with the issue now set to be decided at a trial in June.
The ruling temporarily spares Houston’s public school system from joining a list of over 100 school districts in the nation that have experienced similar state takeovers during the past 30 years.
The list includes New York City, Chicago, Boston, CONTINUE READING: Domingo Morel: The State Takeover of Houston Schools Is about Race and Power, Not School Improvement | Diane Ravitch's blog
