School Leaders

Making the News: Latino Supes in Texas

More than half of Texas’s 5.1 million public school students are Hispanic. And, fittingly, now half of the state’s 20 largest cities have Latino supes. With the recent appointment of Richard Carranza (below) as superintendent of Houston, Texas is making education headlines. The Houston Independent School District is, after all, the largest in the state and the seventh largest in the nation. As expected, this news makes[…]Continue Reading

We Need More Business Role Models for Students

How do we give rural children, as well as those living in urban or suburban areas, a chance to learn about and explore careers? In this guest column, Sabari Raja, CEO and co-founder of Nepris, an Austin-based social platform, writes about the need for more business role models for students. I grew up on a coconut farm in south India[…]Continue Reading