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Texas Third Court of Appeals (Austin)
TEA Loses Bid to Dissolve Injunction
That Stops (for now) Houston ISD Takeover

Ruling: A judge’s temporary injunction preventing the TEA’s planned takeover of Houston ISD will remain in place, for now, pending the final outcome of the TEA’s appeal. Texas Education Agency, et al., v. Houston ISD, No. 03-20-00025-CV. Issued April 24.

A three-member Third Court panel, in this decision, ordered that the temporary injunction Travis County District Judge Catherine Mauzy issued on Jan. 8 preventing the takeover by the TEA of Houston ISD stay in place pending the outcome of the TEA’s appeal to the Third Court of various pre-trial matters.

HISD sued the TEA as the education commissioner was preparing to issue final orders replacing the school board with a board of managers and assigning the conservator he had appointed to the district to be the ISD’s superintendent.

Judge Mauzy scheduled the trial for June, and issued the temporary injunction preventing the TEA from taking over HISD pending the outcome of the trial.