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northern Harris County,

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(TEA) revoked accreditation on December 28, 2013 due to poor financial and/or academic performance ratings.

Teacher incident

In May 2010, a video of a teacher attacking a student was released to the public. The video, captured on April 29, 2010 shows the teacher dragging a 13-year-old male student across the floor before hitting the student. The teacher in the video, Sheri Lynn Davis (who did not have a teaching certificate), was fired and arrested. Gabriel Hahn Moseley, another teacher who witnessed the event but did not intervene, was also fired.Radcliffe, Jennifer.
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''. June 24, 2010. Retrieved on June 24, 2010. The mother of the child filed a lawsuit against the teacher. The

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sent investigators to the school to conduct an investigation. The superintendent and the principal of the school, Ollie Hilliard and David Jones, were charged with failure to report child abuse, a misdemeanor. Davis was charged with felony injury, and Moseley was given misdemeanor charges. Davis pleaded "

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." She received a five-year

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sentence and an order that she cannot work at a school during her probationary period. In June 2011, Jones and Hilliard were acquitted of the charges against them.Tolson, Mike.
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''. June 24, 2011. Retrieved on July 17, 2011.

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