Anastasia Goodwin

3 days ago | houstonchronicle.com | Samantha Ketterer |Anastasia Goodwin

Athletics staff are the eight highest-paid employees at the University of Texas at Austin, led by head football coach Steve Sarkisian, according to public records. The reported figures are base salaries, so some officials make even more through additional compensation measures and incentives. Sarkisian's base salary is $4.3 million, but his latest contract nets him an average $10.8 million a year without bonuses for championship wins and appearances, according to previous Chronicle reporting.

1 week ago | houstonchronicle.com | Megan Menchaca |Anastasia Goodwin

Houston-area school districts reported wide disparities in the percentage of students in the Class of 2023 who are graduating high school on time, according to an analysis of state data. The Texas Education Agency publishes annual data on the four-year high school graduation rates for each school district in the state, which measures the percentage of students who began attending high school in ninth grade and then graduated within four years.

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Megan Menchaca |Anastasia Goodwin

Less than a quarter of Houston ISD's Black and Hispanic high school graduates in the Class of 2018 earned college degrees in six years, a rate the district's academic leaders have called unacceptable and a severe crisis that has left thousands of underserved students unprepared for success in the workforce.

2 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Megan Menchaca |Anastasia Goodwin

In 2018, nearly 100 students graduated from Houston ISD's Kashmere High School. After six years, five of those students had earned degrees from any college or university in the U.S.At a handful of HISD high schools, including Kashmere, the percentage of students who earn college degrees after graduating is regularly in the single digits. Meanwhile, at the district's top-performing campuses, approximately 80% of graduates earn college degrees in six years.

3 weeks ago | houstonchronicle.com | Megan Menchaca |Anastasia Goodwin

At most Houston ISD campuses, the percentage of high school graduates who enroll in college within a year of graduation has declined since 2016. About three-fourths of HISD high schools reported a drop in college enrollment between 2016 to 2023, with Kashmere High School and Mickey Leland College Preparatory Academy for Young Men reporting decreases of nearly 20 percentage points. The data does not include students who graduated after the state takeover in June 2023.