Demonstrators protest on March 3 against the Texas Education Agency's proposed takeover of the Houston Independent School District.
Mandatory Credit:	Juan A. Lozano/AP

Demonstrators protest on March 3 against the Texas Education Agency's proposed takeover of the Houston Independent School District.
Mandatory Credit: Juan A. Lozano/AP

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Texas officials will take over the state's biggest school district, raising questions about who controls America's classrooms

The fate of nearly 200,000 American students' education will soon be controlled not by locally elected leaders but by state-appointed managers yet to be named.