February 2005 - Page 7 of 15

HISD: two teachers will be fired for TAKS cheating

February 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

An HISD investigation has determined that two teachers did help students on a TAKS test: The two fifth grade teachers were fired after a two month investigation at Sanderson Elementary School for cheating on the

HISD trains testing monitors to prevent cheating

February 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

HISD has trained 600 people to be TAKS test monitors, to help prevent cheating during next week’s TAKS testing: They’ll fan out across nearly 300 Houston Independent School District campuses in teams of at least

A clarification regarding underperforming high schools (with an update)

February 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

KPRC-2 has a story up that says HISD superintendent Abe Saavedra is clarifying his plans for seeking help to improve three underperforming high schools: […]the superintendent clarified Thursday that the district has no definite plans

A rumor to give the Chron editorial board a stroke

February 17, 2005 Kevin Whited

Chris Elam posts an interesting rumor regarding House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) to his weblog. Whether the rumor turns out to be true or not, DeLay would be wise to take Elam’s advice on

Mammoth ponderings

February 17, 2005 Anne Linehan

An online Chronicle headline has caught the eye of Laurence Simon: I’ve never seen a mammoth up close. Although the last thing you’d want from a First Mammoth Experience is some rich person’s used-up ratty

Behind-the-scenes with White and Whitmire

February 16, 2005 Anne Linehan

Rick Casey’s column today provides some details about the behind-the-scenes efforts between Mayor White and Sen. Whitmire to save and fix $AFEclear. The whole column is worthy of excerpt, so I’ll just encourage you to

Clarification: The James Guckert/Jeff Gannon saga

February 16, 2005 Kevin Whited

On Monday, I took the Chronicle to task for an editorial that made claims about the association of one James Guckert (Jeff Gannon) with “a number of sexually oriented Web sites.” At the time that

Loading zone parking restrictions/revenue stream to start soon

February 16, 2005 Anne Linehan

People who park in downtown loading zones have been given two more weeks to pay the proper permit fees: Vehicles illegally parked in downtown commercial loading zones were given a two-week reprieve Tuesday when city

Saavedra's battle to fix what ails HISD

February 16, 2005 Anne Linehan

After a couple of days of exceedingly bad editorials, the Chronicle‘s editors appear to have regained their composure and written one for today that is not only good, but it’s timely, too: If Abe Saavedra

Will Onstead put the Randall back in Randalls?

February 15, 2005 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s David Kaplan reports that rumors are swirling that Safeway, which purchased the Randalls grocery chain in 1999, is furiously trying to unload the stores following consistently declining performance. One potential purchaser is none