NAACP officials sue Houston ISD over alleged Open Meetings Act violation

2014-05-08T15:02:49-05:00

By Ericka Mellon Houston Chronicle Originally published May 7, 2014 Two Houston NAACP officers filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the Houston school district from turning Jones High into a specialty school without athletics or a traditional attendance zone. The suit filed by former Houston school board member Carol Galloway and James Douglas, vice presidents of the NAACP, alleges that the Houston Independent School District violated the state's open-meetings law by not giving specific enough notice of its plans for Jones High in March The meeting notice said the school board planned to consider a motion "to consolidate" Jones High [...]