Fifth Ward community worries HISD takeover may close their school: 'Stop saying Wheatley is a failure'

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Samuel Ollison, a junior at Phillis Wheatley High School, already has started working on his backup plan. 

He spends his free time looking into schools he should attend senior year because Houston ISD may be taken over by the Texas Education Agency at any moment, and he has heard rumors his school may close. 

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