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Third Ward Residents Protest HISD Proposal To Close Historic School
The steps in front of Ryan Middle School were the site of a rally yesterday in protest of an HISD proposal to close and consolidate the historic Third Ward school. HISD says the proposal calls to move...
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HISD To Close Third Ward’s Ryan Middle School
Despite the community’s protests, HISD voted 5-3 last night to close Ryan Middle School at the end of the school year, reports the Houston Chronicle’s Ericka Mellon: “Roughly two dozen speakers —...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Why Don’t Schools Lease?
“HISD needs to get out of the real estate business and set themselves up as a 40 year build to suit lease with AA credit and 10 year options to the end of time, thus allowing private development to be...
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UH’s Dead-End Den for Cougars of Age
This is what’s going up on some prime spurfront property at the University of Houston. Next to a Chinese restaurant and that prideful parking garage on Spur 5 that inspired the Houston Chronicle’s...
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Third Ward’s Ryan Middle School To Become Medicine Magnet
HISD voted on Thursday night to reopen the closing Ryan Middle School next year as a magnet for students interested in the medical field. Though community protests have tried to move HISD to keep the...
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The Solar-Powered Spring Branch School House
Here’s a rendering of the classroom studio (and vegetable garden and recycled shipping container) that’s now under construction at the Monarch School in Spring Branch. North of the Katy Fwy. near...
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Is HISD Keeping Rebuilding Jobs from Minority-Owned Firms?
That’s what the Houston chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (or HNOMA) seems to suspect, having sent a letter to HISD superintendent Terry Grier alleging “disenfranchisement”...
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A Standoff To Buy HISD’s Law Enforcement HS Campus
The 11-acre parcel for sale in Magnolia Grove where the High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice stands has been the object of some poker-faced one-upmanship between two interested...
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How One Buyer Would Use HISD’s Law Enforcement HS Property
If the High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice is sold to St. Thomas High School competitor AV Dickson Street, the investment company has said it plans to link the 11-acre Magnolia Grove...
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In Praise of Carnegie Vanguard’s Mixed-Use Parking Garage
What does HISD have to show for that $805 million approved in 2007 for new school construction and renovation? MaryScott Hagle reviews the results at Lockhart, Herod, and Peck elementaries and gives...
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Working the System: New Bids To Buy HISD’s Law Enforcement HS Are Millions More
The bids that were submitted to HISD yesterday to buy the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice High School in Magnolia Grove rang up almost $5 million more than those the first time around in July:...
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The River Oaks Plant House Will Be Gone by the End of the Year
The River Oaks Plant House — also known as the greenery purveyor that regularly festoons the corner of Westheimer and Buffalo Speedway with dancing bears and other fake topiary — will be closing up...
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The Greening of Lantrip Elementary
Parents and students connected to Eastwood’s Lantrip Elementary School are showing off a new mulch-covered running track, separate wheelchair-ready path, and set of 12 raised garden beds on a...
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Visiting the Future Site of the New Third Ward Medical High School with the...
A reader reports seeing some activity on the long-vacant 9.177-acre melting-erlenmeyer-flask-shaped parcel of land at the northeast corner of Hwy. 288 and North MacGregor Way: no construction...
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HCC Is Planning a Student Dorm Building Too, at Alabama and Almeda
A report from Houston Community College says the commuter school is “in the early stages of planning” its own new dorm complex on the 6 acres of land it bought late last year at the northeast corner of...
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DeBakey High School for Health Professions Will Move To Slice of Former...
HISD intends to demolish the last remaining non-garage portion of the Shamrock Hotel complex early next year as part of its plans for a new DeBakey High School for Health Professions. The Shamrock’s...
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Inside the Stacked Theaters and Studios of the New HSPVA, About To Go Up...
Here’s a cutaway view looking into what’s being called the final design of the new Downtown campus for Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Escalating construction costs have...
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Comment of the Day: What I Should Have Said about Strake Jesuit
“If people want to self-segregate and move somewhere like The Woodlands, great. I’m glad they are free to do that. What I don’t understand is the myopia that self-segregation can create, when people...
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Comment of the Day: School Choice
“. . . You have hit upon an issue that is at the core of not only the perception of school quality but also a prime driver of the residential real estate market, especially in the suburbs (and thereby...
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Say Salaam to the Shady Acres Home of Houston’s First Arabic Immersion School
Here’s where some of Houston’s future bilingual Arabic-English speakers will learn their two alphabets: HISD’s former Holden Elementary and the current home of more recently the Energy Institute High...
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