As HISD completes its second year under the state takeover, Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath, like an unwanted groundhog, has come out of his little hole in Austin and proclaimed two more years of disenfranchisement for the people of Houston. One of the most eye-popping stats from the takeover so far is the huge teacher turnover and influx of uncertified teachers.

In the first year of the takeover, HISD lost around 5,000 teachers. That’s about 45 percent of teachers in the district. So far this year, retention is a little better, but we are still losing far more teachers than we did pre-takeover. More than half of the replacement teachers are uncertified and inexperienced. If current trends continue, uncertified teachers will outnumber certified teachers by the time the tak

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