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Dawer  \nThe University of Texas at Austin  \nUnited States  \nCitation: Dawer, D. I. (2025) .“We are not your colony”: Policy discourses and resistance in Texas’s takeover of Houston Independent School District. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 33(11). [https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.33.8508](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.33.8508) This article is part of the special issue Transforming School Systems: Questions of Power, Resistance, Equity, and Community guest edited by Caitlin Farrell and Vidya Shah.  \nAbstract: This paper applies principles of critical policy analysis (CPA) to examine the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) 2023 takeover of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) . Engaging in qualitative analyses of four TEA-facilitated community information sessions held during the period immediately preceding the takeover, I examine the policy discourses officials invoked to frame the takeover and the counter-discourses community members used to disrupt the state’s official narrative. Through policy discourses that attempted to narrow the scope, categorize community members, and create a sense of inevitability, state officials positioned the HISD community as passive recipients of the top-down implementation of takeover. In response, community members exercised their agency by strategically disrupting TEA’s official takeover narrative and advancing counter-discourses that highlighted the state’s organized neglect and evasion of answerability. Attending to gaps between the rhetoric and reality of takeover policy, this study demonstrates how the racialized narratives underpinning takeover, and state  \nJournal website: [http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/](http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/ Manuscript)[ Manuscript](http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/ Manuscript) received: 13/12/2023  \nFacebook: /EPAAA Revisions received: 28/8/2024  \nTwitter: @epaa_aape Accepted: 12/9/2024  \nEducation Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 33 No. 11 SPECIAL ISSUE 2  \naccountability systems more broadly, reinforce a disciplinary dynamic that neutralizes the democratic engagement of marginalized communities.  \nKeywords: community engagement; state takeover; policy discourse  \n“No somos su colonia”: Discursos de política y resistencia en la toma de control del Distrito Escolar Independiente de Houston por parte de Texas  \nResumen: Este artículo aplica los principios del análisis crítico de políticas (CPA) para examinarla toma de control del Distrito Escolar Independiente de Houston (HISD) por parte de la Agencia de Educación de Texas (TEA) en 2023. Al participar en análisis cualitativos de cuatro sesiones de información comunitaria facilitadas por la TEA celebradas durante el período inmediatamente anterior a la toma de control, examino los discursos de política que los funcionarios invocaron para enmarcar la toma de control y los contradiscursos que los miembros de la comunidad utilizaron para alterar la narrativa oficial del estado. A través de discursos de política que intentaron limitar el alcance, categorizar a los miembros de la comunidad y crear una sensación de inevitabilidad, los funcionarios estatales posicionaron a la comunidad del HISD como receptores pasivos de la implementación de la toma de control desde arriba hacia abajo. En respuesta, los miembros de la comunidad ejercieron su agencia al alterar estratégicamente lanarrativa oficial de la toma de control de la TEA y al presentar contradiscursos que resaltaron lanegligencia organizada y la evasión de responsabilidad del estado. Este estudio, que presta atención a las brechas entre la retórica y la realidad de las políticas de toma de poder, demue","cbCaitwT81OC7f0Q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitwT81OC7f0Q","pdf",498849,33,"English","# Abstract\n# Keywords\n# Policy Discourses and Resistance Study\n## Critical Policy Analysis Approach","[{\"question\":\"What method does the paper use to study the takeover?\",\"answer\":\"It applies critical policy analysis (CPA) and uses qualitative analysis of four TEA-facilitated community information sessions held just before the takeover.\"},{\"question\":\"How did state officials frame the takeover in their policy discourses?\",\"answer\":\"Officials invoked discourses that narrowed the scope, categorized community members, and created an overall sense of inevitability, positioning HISD’s community as passive recipients.\"},{\"question\":\"How did community members respond to the state’s narrative?\",\"answer\":\"They exercised agency by strategically disrupting TEA’s official takeover narrative and advancing counter-discourses highlighting organized neglect and evasion of answerability.\"}]","We Are Not Your Colony - Policy Discourses and Resistance in Texas’s Takeover of Houston Independent School District | PDF",1792094407,83]