{"id":158848,"date":"2025-08-19T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158848\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:43:18","slug":"school-ratings-aug-19-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158848\/","title":{"rendered":"School ratings (Aug. 19, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-381306 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HM-CC_Banner-FB-Share-1000x525.png\" alt=\"The Houston Matters logo on a white background\" width=\"1000\" height=\"525\"  \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s show: The Texas Education Agency released its accountability ratings for the 2024\u201325 school year on Friday, covering public school districts across the state. Five districts are at risk of a state takeover, while HISD, which is already run by the state, is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/education\/2025\/08\/15\/528817\/houston-isds-overall-b-rating-means-district-is-extraordinarily-close-to-ending-state-takeover\/\" rel=\"noopener\">seeing improvements<\/a> in test scores. Bob Sanborn from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenatrisk.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Children at Risk<\/a> weighs in.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: We learn what a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defendernetwork.com\/news\/cfpb-rule-medical-debt-credit-reports\/\" rel=\"noopener\">recent ruling<\/a> means for Houstonians with unpaid medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we find out why some longtime city employees who took Mayor John Whitmire&#8217;s early retirement offer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/joy-sewing\/article\/city-pensions-retirement-whitmire-20812987.php\" rel=\"noopener\">haven&#8217;t been paid yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we revisit a conversation from last year where longtime residents offered their suggestions for some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/shows\/houston-matters\/2024\/08\/21\/497357\/12-dos-and-donts-for-life-in-houston\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston do\u2019s and don\u2019ts<\/a> for life here.<\/p>\n<p>And we discuss the business side of filmmaking in Houston with organizers of this weekend&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hmc25.eventive.org\/welcome\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Media Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday\u2019s show: The Texas Education Agency released its accountability ratings for the 2024\u201325 school year on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[92204,92205,92206,10882,20478,39054,16304,4345,49252,92207,16305,92208,71894,425,46442,16990,50,700,92209,8366,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-158848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bob-sanborn","9":"tag-buyouts","10":"tag-children-at-risk","11":"tag-city-of-houston","12":"tag-early-retirement","13":"tag-filmmaking","14":"tag-full-show","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-chronicle","17":"tag-houston-dos-and-donts","18":"tag-houston-matters","19":"tag-houston-media-conference","20":"tag-joy-sewing","21":"tag-local","22":"tag-medical-bills","23":"tag-medical-debt","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-retirement","26":"tag-school-ratings","27":"tag-tea","28":"tag-texas","29":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115056437376031955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}