The roles are critical because managers in these offices supervise principals and make decisions that campus leaders and teachers must carry out in schools.<\/p>\n
HISD will divide oversight among four offices: elementary and secondary schools in the New Education System reform model and elementary and secondary schools outside of it. Records show principals may report to these administrators in the new structure. The overhaul also appears to eliminate positions in HISD’s former north, central, west and south divisions, replacing oversight by geography with oversight by school type.<\/p>\n
HISD has been in a state of continuous change since the Texas Education Agency took over the district and appointed new leadership in June 2023.\u00a0One of state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles’ first decisions was to cut central office positions \u2014 many of which, he said, were vacant<\/a> \u2014 and to model the district’s organization after the U.S. State Department and military<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The latest reorganization, which is still ongoing, comes after several of the district’s top leaders<\/a> left to run school districts under new state takeovers. The district did not explain its reasoning or answer questions about the restructuring.<\/p>\n The four new offices are NES Elementary; NES Secondary; EAS Elementary; and EAS Secondary. HISD did not answer questions about why this overhaul occurred and to what extent the previous area division offices will remain. The new offices’ leaders appear to be deputy chiefs of schools, reporting to a\u00a0new district chief of schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n HISD has promoted new deputy chiefs into these new offices. June records listed four new deputy chiefs of schools and one new “deputy chief of schools operations.” HISD did not answer questions about the\u00a0responsibilities of those deputy chiefs.<\/p>\n It is unclear what this means for the two remaining area division chiefs \u2014\u00a0Imelda De La Guardia<\/a> of the south division and Daniel Girard<\/a> of the north division \u2014 and the former deputy chief of schools for\u00a0non-NES campuses is still listed in that role. In all, there are eight\u00a0deputy chiefs of schools and schools operations and\u00a0area division chiefs.\u00a0HISD did not respond to clarifying questions on leadership.<\/p>\n