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The Houston Independent School District is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States. HISD operates schools in most of Houston, Bellaire, and West University Place. The district also takes students from Southside Place and the Harris County portion of Missouri City.HISD once served the Harris County portion of Stafford, but the portion went to the newly established Stafford Municipal School District in 1982 when that school district started to serve the entire city of Stafford.
All of the HISD area is part of the taxation area for Houston Community College System.
Former HISD Superintendent Rod Paige pushed the district into new heights with the PEER Program. Improving scores from its schools have caused a lot of praise from others nationwide. Kaye Stripling took over when Rod Paige headed to Washington, DC as part of United States President George W. BushGeorge Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. His first four-year term as President began on January 20, 2001 following the controversial U. presidential election, 2000, where for the first time in American's Bush Administration cabinetorder of precedence. The Cabinet is a part of the executive branch of the U. federal government consisting of the heads of federal executive departments. Despite having evolved as one of the most powerful organs of the contemporary U. government, the term. HISD is highly regarded in the bilingual educationBilingual education is to teach children in school a language other than their native language. In the 50 states of the United States, proponents of the practice argue that it will help to keep non-English-speaking children from falling behind their peers of its predominantly HispanicHispanic as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorise US citizens, permanent residents and temporary immigrants, whose background hail either from Spain or the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America. The term is used as a student body (including recruiting teachers from MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co, SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc, and Central and South America) and its magnet (Performing Arts, Science, Health Professions, Law Enforcement, etc) High Schools are considered a model for other urban school districts as a way to provide a high quality education and keep top performing students in the inner city from fleeing to private schools or exurban school districts.
There is recent controversy over HISD over a 2003 New York Times report that alleges that HISD is not reporting school violence to the police.
A 2003 state audit of HISD's performance caused more controversy. One of the district's most publicized accomplishments during the Paige era was a dramatic reduction in dropout rates. When 16 secondary schools, including Sharpstown High School , were audited, it was found that most of the students who left school from those schools in 2000-2001 should have been counted as dropouts, but were not. It was found that the administrators at Sharpstown deliberately changed the dropout rate at the school. The Sharpstown controversy resulted in a recommendation to label the entire HISD as "unacceptable." Former Sharpstown assistant principal Robert Kimball asserts that HISD coerced administrators at many schools to lie on dropout rates. HISD asserts that the fraud is only contained to Sharpstown, and that the false statistics at other schools were caused by confusion related to the state's system of tracking students who leave school.
