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Revere Middle School
This is a list of schools operated by the Houston Independent School District. In the district, grades kindergarten through 5 are considered to be elementary school, grades 6 through 8 are considered to be middle school, and grades 9 through 12 are considered to be senior high school. Some elementary schools go up to the sixth grade. Every house in HISD is assigned to an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school. HISD has many alternative programs and transfer options available to students who want a specialized education and/or dislike their home schools. Current schools EE-12 schools * Thomas Horace Rogers School (Alternative school) is part Vanguard school (K-8), part school for the deaf (K-8), and part school for multiply impaired children (K-12). EE-8 schools Traditional: * Gregory Lincoln Education Center (Zoned school) (Houston) Alternative: *Briarmeadow Charter School (HISD charter school) (Houston) ** Named after the Briarmeadow community,
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Bellaire HS TX New Campus 0
Bellaire may refer to: Places United States *Bellaire, Arkansas *Belair, Florida (other), Bellaire, Florida, multiple locations *Bellaire, Kansas (other), Bellaire, Kansas, multiple locations *Bellaire, Michigan *Bellaire, Minnesota *Bellaire, Ohio *Bellaire Gardens, Ohio *Bellaire, Pennsylvania *Bellaire, Queens, New York *Bellaire, Texas **Bellaire Boulevard, an arterial street in Houston, Texas Other places *Bellaire, Durban, South Africa *Bellaire, Wallonia, province of Liège, Belgium Other uses *Bellaire (LIRR station) *Lake Bellaire *Bellaire (musician) See also

*Bel Air (other) (includes ''Bel-Air'') *Bel-Aire (other) (includes ''Bel Aire'') *Belair (other) *Bellair (other) *Bellaire High School (other), several high schools *Bellairs, a surname *Belleair (other) {{place name disambiguation ...
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Montrose, Houston
Montrose is a neighborhood located in west-central Houston, Texas, United States. Montrose is a area roughly bounded by Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 to the south, Allen Parkway to the north, South Shepherd Drive to the west, and Taft to Fairview to Bagby to Highway 59 to Main to the east. The area is also referred to as Neartown or Neartown / Montrose. Montrose is one of the major cultural areas in Houston notable for its hipster culture, art scene, food scene, and nightlife. In the 1980s, it was the center of the gay community. Established in 1911, the neighborhood is a demographically diverse area with renovated mansions, bungalows with wide porches, and cottages located along tree-lined boulevards. Montrose has been called the "Heart of Houston" and the "strangest neighborhood east of the Pecos". History Montrose, named after the town of Montrose, Angus, Scotland, was originally envisioned as a planned community and streetcar suburb dating back to the early 20th centur ...
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Lantrip Elementary School
Dora B. Lantrip Elementary School is a primary school at 100 Telephone Road in the Eastwood community in the East End region of Houston, Texas, United States. The school is within the Houston Independent School District (HISD). The school serves a section of Eastwood.Lantrip Elementary Attendance Zone
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The school has the Environmental Science Magnet Program.
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Clayton Homes (Houston)
Susan V. Clayton HomesDe León, Arnoldo. '' Ethnicity in the Sunbelt: Mexican Americans in Houston''. Texas A&M University Press, 2001. , 9781585441495. p101 was a public housing unit in the Second Ward area of the East End district of Houston.Map
(). East End Management District. Retrieved on March 8, 2010.
Operated by the (HHA), formerly the Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH), it was along Runnels Street, along the Buffalo Bayou and east of

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Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Thomas Jefferson Rusk (December 5, 1803July 29, 1857) was an early political and military leader of the Republic of Texas, serving as its first Secretary of War as well as a general at the Battle of San Jacinto. He was later a US politician and served as a Senator from Texas from 1846 until his suicide. He served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1857. Early life Rusk was born in Pendleton, South Carolina, to John Rusk, a stonemason, and Sterritt Rusk. After being admitted to the bar in 1825, Rusk began his law practice in Clarkesville, Georgia. In 1827, he married Mary F. (Polly) Cleveland, the daughter of General Benjamin Cleveland, grandson of Col. Benjamin Cleveland of King's Mountain fame. Rusk became a business partner of his father-in-law after the marriage. He lived in the gold region of Georgia and made sizable mining investments. In 1834, however, the managers of the company in which he had invested embezzled all the funds and fled to Mexica ...
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Texas A&M University Press
Texas A&M University Press (also known informally as TAMU Press) is a scholarly publishing house associated with Texas A&M University. It was founded in 1974 and is located in College Station, Texas, in the United States. Overview The Texas A&M University Press was founded in 1974 under the direction of Texas A&M University president and chancellor Jack K. Williams. The first director of the press, Frank H. Wardlaw, had previously helped to establish the University of Texas Press and the University of South Carolina Press. From its founding, the press has operated as a university department, reporting directly to the university president. The press is expected to "further the objectives of the university through publications devoted to advancing knowledge among scholars and to enriching the cultural heritage of the Southwest." The original press offices were destroyed by a fire in February 1979. They were replaced in 1983 with the construction of the John H. Lindsey Building. Th ...
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Mexican Americans In Houston
The city of Houston has significant populations of Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and Mexican citizen expatriates. Houston residents of Mexican origin make up the oldest Hispanic ethnic group in Houston, and Jessi Elana Aaron and José Esteban Hernández, authors of "Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston," referring to another large Latino group in Houston, stated that as of 2007 it was the most "well-established" Hispanophone ethnic group there.Aaron and Hernández, p335 "Finally, the Mexican community in Houston represents the oldest and most well established Spanish-speaking group in the area, .. Houston is the third city for Mexican immigrants after Chicago and Los Angeles. History Beginning and immigration in the early 20th century When Houston was first settled in 1836, some Mexican prisoners of war cleared and drained swampland so the city could be settled. Some parcels of land w ...
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Houston Business Journal
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes The Business Journals, which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States, Hemmings Motor News, Street & Smith's Sports Business Daily, and Inside Lacrosse. The company is owned by Advance Publications. The company receives revenue from display advertising and classified advertising in its weekly newspaper and online advertising on its website and from a subscription business model. The bizjournals.com website contains local business news from various cities in the United States, along with an archive that contains more than 5 million business news articles published since 1996. As of August 2021, it receives over 3.6 million readers each week. History The company was founded in 1982 by Mike Russell with the launch of the Kansas City Business Journal. In 1985, the company became a public company via an initial public offering and ...
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Second Ward, Houston
Second Ward (also known as Segundo Barrio, Spanish for "second neighborhood", or Segundo in short;Garza p. 15. historically Das Zweiter in German) is a historical political district ward in the East End community in Houston, Texas. It was one of the four original wards of the city in the nineteenth century. The community known as the Second Ward today is roughly bounded by Buffalo Bayou to the north, Lockwood Avenue to the east, and railroad tracks to the south and west, although the City of Houston's "Super Neighborhood" program includes a section east of Lockwood. The Second Ward, which initially had a significant German American population, today has mainly Mexican American residents.Davis, Rod.Houston's really good idea Bus tour celebrates communities that forged a city. '' San Antonio Express-News''. Sunday August 3, 2003. Travel 1M. Retrieved on February 11, 2012. Many Mexican-Americans moved into the area following World War II and the subsequent white flight from the ...
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Children At Risk
CHILDREN AT RISK is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that drives changes for children through research, education, and influencing public policy. Founded in the year of 1989 in Houston, Texas and with an office opened in North Texas in 2011, the organization focuses on the well-being of children and educates legislators on the importance of solving children's issues while at the same time focusing on a variety of issues, and the primary issues are human trafficking, food insecurity, education, and parenting. CHILDREN AT RISK also has a North Texas office in Dallas,Texas. Some of CHILDREN AT RISK's previous primary issues were juvenile justice, mental health, and Latino children. The mission is to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and advocacy. The organization strives to make children's needs a priority and to ensure ample resources are available for children and their families to thrive. Hi ...
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English As A Second Language
English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages. Language education for people learning English may be known as English as a second language (ESL), English as a foreign language (EFL), English as an additional language (EAL), English as a New Language (ENL), or English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). The aspect in which ESL is taught is referred to as teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), teaching English as a second language (TESL) or teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). Technically, TEFL refers to English language teaching in a country where English is not the official language, TESL refers to teaching English to non-native English speakers in a native English-speaking country and TESOL covers both. In practice, however, each of these terms tends to be used more generically across the full field. TEFL is more widely used in the UK and TESL or TESOL in the US. The term "ESL" has ...
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