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HISD plan to shift many CTE programs to Barbara Jordan draws widespread opposition from students and parents
Summary
Houston ISD officials proposed centralizing many high-cost CTE programs at the Barbara Jordan Career Center; students, parents and teachers urged the board to keep magnet and CTE offerings on their home campuses, warning that busing and program removals would reduce access and destabilize schools.
Houston — Houston Independent School District officials on Dec. 11 defended a plan to centralize many career and technical education offerings at the Barbara Jordan Career Center, saying a hub model would expand access to equipment-heavy programs. The proposal drew sustained and sometimes emotional public comment from students, parents and educators who said moving programs off campus would harm learning and community stability.
Chief academic/presenting official Chief Holt told the board the Barbara Jordan site would offer 16 programs that all students from nine surrounding high schools could access, and cited a third-party labor-market analysis that recommended prioritizing programs that lead to living-wage jobs. "The data that led to…
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