Just over 18 months ago, Houston A+ Challenge launched an ambitious new initiative aimed at significantly increasing the number of students in our region’s public middle schools who are truly on track for success in high school, college, career and civic life. We began our work with a simple, research-based
premise – that schools and families must raise their expectations for all students, because our state’s longheld definition of “good enough” is simply not good enough to ensure the success of our children and our democracy in the 21st century.