In the past couple weeks, articles have popped up across town regarding the challenges at Hogg MS here in the Heights and parents' struggles with HISD to improve the quality of the school. 

Even if you don't have children, please join us at the meeting tonight at 6:00 pm in Hogg Auditorium to once again let HISD know what we expect out of our neighborhood school.  Below are links to recent articles regarding Hogg Middle School.

Houston Press
By Margaret Downing, Wed., Feb. 2 2011 @ 5:37P

Hogg Middle School May Transform into an IB School After Parents Fuss
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2011/02/hogg_middle_school_may_transfo.php

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ultimate Heights
by Andrew Benedict-Nelson, published February 4, 2011 12:42 pm

Hogg MS social studies teacher hopes to 'dry erase' low expectations
http://ultimateheights.com/stories/231159-hogg-ms-social-studies-teacher-hopes-to-dry-erase-low-expectations

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Houston Chronicle
By ERICKA MELLON  HOUSTON CHRONICLE  Feb. 11, 2011, 8:15PM

Hogg Middle gets its 4th principal in 4 years
School in the Heights has parents worried
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7423888.html

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KUHF FM 88.7 Houston Public Radio
February 16, 2011 by: Pat Hernandez

Parents who live in the Heights are encouraged to attend a meeting that could determine the future of Hogg Middle School. The HISD meeting will discuss issues that prevent parents from sending their kids there. Pat Hernandez gives us a preview.
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1297824301
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KUHF FM 88.7 Houston Public Radio

Changes Promised at Hogg Middle School

February 17, 2011 by: Gail Delaughter

A new principal vows to turn things around at Hogg Middle School. As Gail Delaughter reports, administrators are responding to complaints from parents who say Hogg isn't up to the same standards as other schools in the Heights
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1297980185
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Online Petition support in Revitalizing Hogg MS
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42231.html

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Parents Power School Reform

http://www.edutopia.org/yes-prep-parents-school-reform-hogg
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A Thriving School Sets Replication in Gear

by Grace Rubenstein

http://www.edutopia.org/yes-prep-school-success-replication

Hogg is a cavernous old school in a lush, gentrified Houston neighborhood called the Heights, where many of the local children go to private or magnet middle schools. Many lower-income kids from other neighborhoods attend the school.

This article was also published in the Dec/Jan 2009: Green Your School issue of Edutopia magazine as "Replication: A Drop, or a Bucket?".

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