Thriving to Surviving.
Stakeholder Lived Experiences of School District Takeover in Texas Under Broad Academy Leadership.
"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society."
— Sonia Sotomayor
Dr. Montgomery, holding "The Dissertation Journey."
A narrative inquiry into the largest school district takeover in Texas history.
Welcome to the doctoral studies portfolio of Dr. Tonya M. McBride-Montgomery, a retired principal of the Rhodes School for Performing Arts K-8 Charter School and a 25-year veteran of the Houston Independent School District. This site documents her dissertation research at Alverno College — a qualitative inquiry into the perceived motivations and lived consequences of the Texas Education Agency's wholesale takeover of HISD.
The pages that follow are organized as chapters in a doctoral monograph: a statement of acknowledgment, a biography, the dissertation itself in five parts, a bibliography, a glossary of key terms, a curated blog of community reporting, and a closing poem written in the voice of a witness.
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Tonya M. Montgomery, Ed.D
Retired Principal, Rhodes School K-8
HISD — 25 years
Houston, Texas