Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston s nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political.
Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston’s nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political.
The takeover is the latest example of Republican and predominately white state officials pushing to take control in heavily minority and Democratic-led cities.