Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and converting the libraries into ‘Team Centers” where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced.

  • formergijoe@lemmy.world
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    He was appointed by the state after HISD (Texas’s largest school district with 276 schools) had A SINGLE SCHOOL (Phillis Wheatley AKA not even 1% of the whole district) received a poor grade from the state education board for 5 consecutive years or more. The state removed elected school board members and the super indendant to have them replaced by the state government.

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      And removing libraries will make the schools better‽ I’m going to need to see the work for that answer.