While Superintendent Mike Miles says nearly all jobs will be filled by the start of the new school year, former teachers, parents, and community members don't agree with his approach.
Today in the HISD Trustee Larry Marshall civil bribery trial: Marshall meeting with vendors, his choice in liquor, and a vendor allegedly coming to him with marital woes.
This week, one of the most explosive allegations in the HISD trustee civil bribery trial was heard in federal court. It came in the form of a very specific allegation made by Gil Ramirez Jr., the plaintiff in the case.
Question raised at trial: Was it lack of a bribe that got company the book from the Houston Independent School District, or the company's poor performance?
The wife of former superintendent HISD Abe Saavedra says she was offered money by an HISD vendor with links to a trustee. He won't take it, she answers.
When a contractor who wanted more school construction work decided to send former long-time HISD trustee Larry Marshall what the contractor described as a "campaign contribution," he once slipped the cash under a Jack Daniels gift case.