Plácido Gómez

Elected Houston ISD Trustee, District VIII

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

@thomaschattwill You and your parents are correct, but why spike the football on NHJ? Shouldn’t we applaud and incentivize brutal self-reflection?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.

That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.

So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

@Dale_Chu In other words, maximizing school ratings is an adult interest more than it is a student outcome.

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

@Dale_Chu There are ways to optimize a state metric that aren’t in the best interest of students, such as making students take online college-prep courses to improve the CCMR rating though there’s no evidence the courses actually prepare students for college.

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

HISD's school accountability ratings have soared under the state takeover, but exclusive data show college-prep courses masked Ds and Fs at some schools. https://t.co/gapxni2bOg

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

@HoustonChron Making decisions based on what's best for school ratings instead of what's best for students is putting adult interests first

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

@rpondiscio In your observations in Houston ISD, do you think the pressure to show results quickly led to practices that would do just that at the expense of the more sophisticated understanding of SoR and more sustainable results?

[Nusaiba Mizan @nusaiblah]

Houston ISD reports 4 F-rated schools as A and B campuses grow by @partain_claire https://t.co/PsUecvzguD

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

@RajSalhotraTX Using the first two hours of the school day to do core content with AI programs, then students get the “time back” to do other activities. HISD isn’t doing the full program yet, they’re experimenting with having AI teach students who ace their tests.

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

Would love HISD to review this before jumping head first into Alpha's so-called Time Back program

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Who, I say, WHO could have predicted this...

*cough cough*

[Evan @evan7257]

Takeover needs a takeover?

[Super Neighborhoods 65 & 82 @Vecindario65_82]

This Thursday, state appointed governance HISD Board to consider selling 2️⃣campus’s in our neighborhood, BRISCOE & FRANKLIN Elem.
Sign up to speak if you would like to voice your opinion/concern.
🗓️Thursday, 0813/26, 5P
📍4400 West 18th St., 77092
https://t.co/XsZasL1ext

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The mistakes of “woke 1” — people expressing very strongly held, very simplistic opinions about complicated issues based on peer pressure and superficial memes without bothering to learn anything about the topic at hand — just continue today on new subjects rather than policing.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

@steveschale I think everyone should probably take some time to wrestle w the very fundamental fact that modern policy approaches do not give the president or congress a ton of options for *lowering the general price level* even though that voters are saying they want.

[Colin Allred @ColinAllredTX]

This testimony is heartbreaking. No child belongs in solitary confinement. We cannot become numb to stories like this. Every family deserves answers and accountability.

[Plácido Gómez @placgomez]

When your district says they’re using a Science of Reading curriculum… then realize their reading is mostly excerpts

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

When you see that a curriculum includes excellent books… then realize students just read one-chapter excerpts.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

When you see that a curriculum includes excellent books… then realize students just read one-chapter excerpts.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WOW. Further reporting that the ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a lengthy record of domestic violence.

This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and started putting some people on the force before their background checks even cleared.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Abolish ICE.