HISD may hire coach for administration, board following uproar over superintendent vote

Houston ISD trustees have scheduled a board meeting for Thursday to rescind a vote to install Abelardo Saavedra as the district's interim superintendent, and to vote on reinstalling Grenita Lathan as the district's temporary leader. The scheduled meeting would come one week after HISD trustees unexpectedly voted 5-4 to hire Saavedra to replace Lathan, who has been interim superintendent since March. Saavedra announced Sunday that he no longer would become HISD's interim leader, telling the Houst