Lantrip Elementary School, HISD and HOUSTON

Parents protest principal's removal at HISD's Lantrip Elementary School | CW39 HOUSTON
As students get dropped off on one Houston Independent School District campus Wednesday morning, they'll be greeted by people chanting slogans and carrying signs. Some parents at Lantrip Elementary School on Houston's East End are protesting this morning to demand answers for the removal of the school's principal Valiza Castro.
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