Texas announces takeover of Houston schools, stirring anger

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March 15, 2023
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1 of 5 FILE - People hold up signs at a news conference, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Houston while protesting the proposed takeover of the city's school district by the Texas Education Agency. Texas officials on Wednesday, March 15, 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.

Juan A. Lozano