Claire Partain
Student Achievement Reporter at Houston Chronicle
@HoustonISD student achievement reporter @houstonchron | past: Woodlands, @austinfc, TXST | [email protected]
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6 days ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Partain
When Houston ISD second-grader Zachary Teoh thinks of the word "bibliophile," he thinks of himself first. Then, he thinks about the building blocks—"biblio-," a Greek word meaning "book," and "-phile," meaning "love"— that give it meaning. Zach, 7, defied even his own expectations when he became the first kindergartner to win River Oaks Elementary's spelling bee in 2022.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Megan Menchaca |Claire Partain
Houston ISD announced Thursday that it plans to cut all remaining campus-level wraparound resource specialists and eliminate the Wraparound Services Department. Najah Callander, HISD's deputy chief of family and community partnerships, wrote in a letter to community leaders that HISD made the decision "after careful consideration" to maximize the district's scarce resources.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Partain
Houston ISD students at non-New Education System campuses will see a slight increase in their per-pupil allotment for the 2025-26 school year, HISD chief of staff Monica Zdrojewski said. Houston ISD has hosted two of its five scheduled workshops as it builds a budget for the 2025-26 school year.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Partain
A Houston ISD school bus driver was hospitalized after being rear-ended by an unlicensed driver in southwest Houston Tuesday. All six Lanier Middle and Lamar High school students were uninjured and were taken home on another bus Tuesday afternoon, according to HISD. The driver of the vehicle, who was unlicensed, was given multiple citations. the district said. The bus driver was taken to the hospital, and their status is unknown.
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Claire Partain
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD is preparing for a possible $50 million budget shortfall in the 2025-26 school year as uncertainties loom about the legislative landscape and potential enrollment declines. The district made some of the state's most sweeping cuts in the 2024-25 school year by slashing $138 million, including cutting librarians and curriculum specialists, discontinuing bus routes that hundreds of families relied on and dipping into its fund balance.
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When have HISD absences spiked so far this year? Nearly 1/4 of students were absent for Day Without Immigrants protests in Feb- much higher than that date in previous years. Some immigrant families are keeping their children home amid deportation fears: 🧵https://t.co/cUqSUDJH87
When I first met Washington HS senior Samuel Johnson, he was offering pensive responses to his team's unlikely state basketball championship run. A few weeks later, he was shooting for the moon with a @NASA program. Read more abt 'Mr. Booker T' here:
HISD students split time between state basketball championships and building NASA space stakes https://t.co/KfruBNR07k