Families and staff at Eastwood Academy High School have been knowledgeable Tuesday that their principal was once the newest faculty chief to be removed since Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles was once appointed to his post in June and that a number of different staff participants are being pulled from Eastwood after an “investigation” through the district.
Families have been knowledgeable through about Principal Ana Aguilar’s elimination in an automatic telephone name from HISD Central Division Superintendent Luz Martinez, who stated that the alternate was once being made to “ensure a high-quality education environment.” A district spokesman added in a commentary that “HISD takes student safety in our schools very seriously” and that Aguilar and different staffers have been removed “after an investigation into incidents at the campus.”
Ana Aguilar
Housto ISD photographAn assistant principal, a counselor and a librarian have been additionally relieved in their tasks, in step with one instructor at Eastwood, who requested to stay nameless for concern of retribution. An HISD spokesman declined to elaborate at the “incidents” in query or supply additional remark.
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The news in an instant despatched waves of concern and confusion rippling during the tight-knit Eastwood neighborhood.
“It’s very frustrating, Eastwood is a wonderful school,” stated Miranda Gonzales, a mother or father of an Eastwood scholar. “There’s no reason for the principal to be removed, Eastwood isn’t (in Miles’ New Education System). It’s ridiculous, it’s insanity and none of us know what’s going on.”Â
Eastwood, a college of not up to 400 scholars in Houston’s East End, won an A score from the Texas Education Agency on its newest critiques. Aguilar joined the campus in 2022 after spending 3 years as principal at Robinson Elementary School, the place she received a First Year Principal of the Year Award at what was once an Achieve 180 campus within the east area of the district.Â
Aguilar didn’t in an instant reply to a request for remark.Â
Her elimination is the newest in a string of shakeups at HISD colleges, the place no less than 9 different principals were changed with out a lot in the best way of rationalization given to households or staff. The principal at Middle College High School at Houston Community College’s Felix Fraga campus, additionally in HISD’s Central Division, was once removed not up to every week in the past. The principal at Cage Elementary and Project Chrysalis Middle School, lots of whose scholars pass on to wait Eastwood Academy, was once changed right through the primary week of faculty this yr.Â
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Martinez, in her message to households, stated that “the district is in the process of identifying an exceptional education leader.”
The Eastwood instructor was once excited by how such upheaval would have an effect on scholars, particularly seniors, who additionally misplaced a school and profession counselor closing week and are within the means of making use of to university, lots of them at Ivy League colleges.Â
“The kids are ill prepared to adjust and the faculty, we’re crushed, to say the least, because we don’t know why they’re gone,” the instructor stated. “Which means we don’t know if we’ll be next.”
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