Yet one more principal of Houston ISD, Francis Scott Key Center College’s Jennifer Murchison, was reassigned. A brand new principal has but to be appointed.
Previous to this position, Murchison served as a trainer, college enchancment specialist, assistant principal, and dean of instruction, amongst different positions. She accomplished her bachelor’s diploma in Interdisciplinary Research from Stephen F. Austin State College and her grasp’s in Academic Management from Houston Baptist College.
Key Center, part of the Kashmere Excessive College feeder sample, acquired an “F” within the Accountability Score system of the Texas Schooling Company (TEA) in 2019. Whereas scores have been neither given in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic nor in 2021 as a result of a “declared state of catastrophe,” the college acquired a much-improved general score of “B” in 2022 from the company.
It’s at the moment one of many 28 faculties underneath HISD Superintendent Mike Miles’ New Schooling System.
The reassignment of Murchison garnered criticism from neighborhood members for being excluded from the decision-making course of, in line with the Houston Chronicle.
Is that this part of an ongoing reshuffling within the faculties’ management?
In July, Miles reassigned the principals of a number of faculties – Erin Trent of Stevens Elementary, Linda Bellard of Garcia Elementary, Dan De Leon of Sharpstown, Everett Hare of Worthing and Tiffany Guillory of Yates.
“My management crew and I reviewed present plans for the way forward for these faculties and decided that new management was essential to drive the type of enchancment these excessive faculties want to start out getting ready their college students and graduates effectively for the office and world that waits for them after highschool,” Miles had mentioned then.
Much like these faculties, Key Center College additionally has a majority of minority enrollment, with 52.3% Black or African American college students, 44.1% Hispanic or Latino college students, and a couple of.3% white college students.
In June, HISD employed new principals at 11 faculties by way of its re-hiring course of at Miles’ NES faculties, which is when Murchison was rehired.
