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Knocking on doors in Texas.


Over the past two years, 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.  volunteers and school officials have brought back to school roughly 800 dropouts out of 250,000 students. And last May, 250 of the ex-dropouts graduated. according to according to
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Houston is the largest school district in the U.S. to get volunteers to knock on Noun 1. knock on - (rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul)
rugby, rugby football, rugger - a form of football played with an oval ball

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 doors of dropouts to get them back to school.
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Title Annotation:Update: NEWS, STATS AND FAST FACTS
Author:Pascopella, Angela
Publication:District Administration
Date:Nov 1, 2006
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