Just two of Houston’s nine school board members have their own shows on the district’s television channel — and both are trustees who have challengers at the polls this November.
Board President Paula Harris and Trustee Manuel Rodriguez, the board’s second-ranking officer, have shows airing on HISD TV, the Houston Independent School District’s channel, whose programs air via the Internet and public-access cable.
Meanwhile, three other Houston school board members said HISD staff members have ignored requests for their own shows. A fourth says he spoke with an HISD media department employee about creating programming at some schools, but the conversation went no further.
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HISD’s communications shop under Terry Grier sure does seem to wind up in the news a lot.
