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Houston officials aren't cooperating.


Some principals and superintendents were still not taking responsibility in December for potentially bad record keeping at Houston Independent School District The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States.[1] Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities. , three months into a six-month review, a state auditor State auditors are executive officers of U.S. states. The office usually is created by the state constitution.
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 told the Houston Chronicle.

A Texas Education Agency official has met with HISD HISD Houston Independent School District (Texas)
HISD Highway Information Services Division (Maryland) 
 officials since August, after investigations revealed erroneous dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human  data in district records.

"Those failing [to do adequate jobs in record-keeping] should be dealt with by the local district," stated Marvin Crawford of TEA. Administrators who do not double-check and correct data face "severe consequences," such as losing their jobs, says HISD spokesman Terry Abbott.
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Title Annotation:Update: education news from schools, businesses, research and government agencies
Publication:District Administration
Date:Feb 1, 2004
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