Colleen DeGuzman
Enterprise Reporter at Houston Public Media (Houston, TX)
enterprise reporter for @houstonpubmedia || RGV raised || [email protected]
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1 week ago |
houstonpublicmedia.org | Colleen DeGuzman
Houston ISD is shuttering its wraparound services department — which provides students with free school supplies, food, clothing and other resources — because the program's "model no longer fits," according to the district.
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1 week ago |
houstonpublicmedia.org | Colleen DeGuzman
Although overall disciplinary action is down in Houston ISD compared to last year, instances of guns being found on campuses have more than doubled, according to state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. Forty-two students have been caught with firearms on campus this school year, Miles reported to the district's board of managers during Wednesday night’s meeting. Last school year, the district had 18 firearm possessions on record by April.
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1 week ago |
texasstandard.org | Colleen DeGuzman
From Houston Public Media:When Houston ISD fourth grader Dora Cabarcas read an article about how a 12-year-old in Colorado inspired a ban on plastic foam takeout containers in her state, Cabarcas decided she wanted to do the same for her school. Cabarcas always sits with her best friends, Celine David and Maddie Woods, during lunch. Their cafeteria at River Oaks Elementary has bright green walls and on the menu one day in March was a choice between dumplings, spaghetti and a chicken tamale.
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2 weeks ago |
houstonpublicmedia.org | Colleen DeGuzman
Houston ISD released a "pay-for-performance" model that, combined with a new locally designed evaluation system for educators, is expected to be the basis for teachers' salaries starting in 2026-27. HISD's Teacher Excellence System, approved last month by its state-appointed board of managers, will take teachers' annual evaluation scores and rank them into seven categories.
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2 weeks ago |
houstonpublicmedia.org | Colleen DeGuzman
The number of nurses in Houston ISD shrunk by nearly 50% this school year, prompting concerns about students' access to medical attention during the school day — especially for kids with chronic illnesses, allergies and special needs. According to records obtained by Houston Public Media through a public information request, HISD currently has 140 school nurses. This is nearly half the number from last year, when the district had nearly 270 school nurses.
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RT @HoustonPubMedia: Recently appointed Humble ISD Superintendent Roger Brown apologized at the district’s Tuesday board meeting for saying…
Houston ISD has half as many school nurses as last year -- they're 130 nurses short of their staff in 2023-24. The district's response: “School nurse staffing levels are NOT a measure of student safety or health service quality." @HoustonPubMedia https://t.co/TE8r5sYM4r
Got to spend lunch time with 3 passionate @HoustonISD fourth graders. We talked about pregnant coyotes, braces and lunch trays. They started a petition to ask their school to switch their lunch trays to reusable ones. Read & listen: @HoustonPubMedia https://t.co/rVT5U0Kcwy