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Texas superintendents on Saturday said state takeovers of school districts — where democratically-elected school boards are ousted and replaced with a state-appointed board of managers — is not a sustainable means to improve student learning.

Two of Texas’ largest school districts, Houston ISD, and most recently, Fort Worth ISD, are under a takeover, after five consecutive years of failing ratings at one of their campuses.

“Do I think that’s sustainable? Absolutely not. I don’t,” Martha Salazar-Zamora, the superintendent of Tomball

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