Texas has a bizarre and punitive approach to public school accountability. If only one school in a large district is “low-performing,” the state can take control of the entire district. Houston is under state control because of only one school, as is Fort Worth. The State Commissioner of Education, Mike Morath, is not an educator. He served on the Dallas School Board, but he is a businessman. In Houston, he appointed former military man Mike Mil…
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