Spring ISD has just a few more months to turn around a struggling high school or risk a state takeover of the entire district — but school leaders are optimistic that early test scores show improvements.
After four straight years of failing accountability scores at Dekaney High School, campus and district administrators are trying to turn around the school’s academic performance. If the campus fails again this school year, the Texas Education Agency could take over the entire school district of 32,000 students – just like it took over Houston, Beaumont and Fort Worth ISDs. It would replace the superintendent and elected board with state-appointed leadership.
Cecily Parker, the district’s executive director of school improvement and support, told the board at a March workshop that TEA officials had visited Dekaney — both recently in February and last fall — to observe how the campus was applying its improvement plans…