Former Texas Education Agency Commissioner Michael Williams is celebrating preliminary results Houston ISD’s superintendent shared with the public Wednesday.
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“It tells a good story,” Williams said. “It tells a story about when you have strong instruction and when principals and your teachers and your students buy into it, you can have great results.”spoke with him ahead of the academic school year to understand how the state takeover would look. Balogun follows up with him as he describes the year filled with protests but academic success and how long he believes the state appointed managers will be in place.
The question and answer have been edited for clarity. The full unedited interview can be found below.: Mr. Williams, so you saw the PowerPoint the superintendent shared with us yesterday about preliminary start testing results. What are your thoughts on it?: Well, first of all, it tells a good story. It tells a story about when you have strong instruction and when principals and your teachers and your students buy into it, you can have great results.
I think it’s obviously extremely important to see the closing of the achievement gap between Black and Hispanic students and their white and upper income counterparts, and I think it’s extremely important to see particularly, those biology scores, where the biology scores are off the chart in terms of increases and progressions.: The district did well in a lot of areas, that one was 14%. In 2019, was I think 4%. But those numbers are incredible.
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