But most people, not gifted with a great education and lucky breaks, are not able to hop and skip between capital cities, finding each metropolis increasingly and pleasantly like the other. They’re in suburbs and small towns, or in the rust-belt north, whence Orwell’s patriotic (emphatically not nationalist) socialism sprang. And they’re anxious — in a way that the young are not anxious. For the under-40s, economic insecurity, college debt, and inability to own a home drive the angst. For the over-40s, it’s a sense that the England they identified with, that gave their lives meaning and pride — the England that was nearly destroyed in the “finest hour” of 1940 — this “sceptered isle,” is disappearing.

After all this time, still probably my fav public intellectual

Spot on

A: If a school district has one or more schools that have failed to meet the state’s academic standards for five consecutive years, HB 1842 mandates the Texas Education Agency appoint a board of managers to assume operations of the entire school district or close the schools that fall into that category. Those schools' academic performances are judged by students' standardized test scores.

HB 1842 was passed in 2015, but Houston ISD officials only became aware of its ramifications in September, according to former Superintendent Richard Carranza.

// Noted by Cory.

Well done, HISD.

Heh