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Was Houston ISD charter school plan a ‘real estate scam?’
Largely lost in the loud, raucous debate last week over what the Houston Independent School District should do with 10 failing schools, a concern was raised about the HISD proposal that would have handed the schools to a charter school group the district’s union president described as a “real estate scam.”