The $2.1 billion budget Superintendent Mike Miles proposed for the 2024-25 school year passed Thursday night, in a 5-4 squeaker that was both rare and revealing that apparently not everyone was on board with a fast paced, expensive expansion of the New Education System. At least not at a time...
Janette Garza Lindner had a lot of questions but in the end she fell in line with what the administration wanted.The $2.1 billion budget Superintendent Mike Miles proposed for the 2024-25 school year passed Thursday night, in a 5-4 squeaker that was both rare and revealing that apparently not everyone was on board with a fast paced, expensive expansion of the New Education System.
Board members Michelle Cruz Arnold, Casandra Auzenne Bandy, Adam Rivon and Rolando Martinez voted against Miles' budget. Those in favor were Board President Audrey Momanaee, Ric Campo, Angela Lemond Flowers, Paula Mendoza and Janette Garza Lindner.
Not one of the more than 130 speakers who addressed the board expressed support for Miles' budget and many begged the board to vote against it. They expressed continued anger at the firings of teachers and principals who the administration determined weren't a good fit in the new spot check approach in HISD.
"NES expansion takes funding away from non-NES schools. Are you okay with that? Why are our most vulnerable students set to receive a cut to their program after showing improvement? Ask for another budget. Ask for another budget meeting,"HISD parent Naomi Doyle Madrid told the board.
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