HISD Redistricting
Presentation of Draft Plan
May 19, 2011
Andrews Kurth LLP
The Law Offices of Rolando Rios
Dr. Richard Murray
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR REDISTRICTING
Population Equality: “One Person — One Vote”
 Baker v. Carr
 Reynold v. Sims
Protections Against Discrimination of Racial, Ethnic and
Language Minorities
 Voting Rights Act
Equal Protection/14th Amendment: Redistricting Based on
Race
 Shaw v. Reno
 Bush v. Vera
Texas Constitution: Equal Protection Clause and Equal Rights
Amendment
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PRIORITIES AND PRINCIPLES FOR REDISTRICTING
(1) The nine HISD Trustee Districts will be of substantially equal
population and, in no event, exceed a ten percent top to
bottom deviation.
(2) The new HISD Trustee Districts should be contiguous and
reasonably compact.
(3) The new HISD Redistricting Plan will be based, to the extent
possible, on the existing trustee district composition.
(4) Where possible, HISD will use easily identifiable geographic
boundaries as district boundaries.
(5) The HISD Redistricting Plan will seek to maintain communities
of interest in a single district and avoiding splitting
neighborhoods when drawing district lines.
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PRIORITIES AND PRINCIPLES FOR REDISTRICTING (cont'd)
(6) The HISD Redistricting Plan will use whole county voting
precincts, whenever possible, to draw trustee districts.
(7) The new HISD Redistricting Plan will adhere to the Voting
Rights Act and avoid retrogression in the position of racial,
ethnic and language minorities with respect to the effective
exercise of their right to vote.
(8) The HISD Redistricting Plan will adhere to the Equal Protection
Clause and will not use race as the predominate factor in
developing the plan.
(9) Recognizing the value of incumbent-constituency relations, the
new HISD Redistricting Plan will seek to keep existing trustees
in their existing districts.
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CURRENT HISD DISTRICTS
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Population Change in HISD Trustee Districts: 2000 – 2010
District
2000
2010
Change
Deviation from Mean
1
134,864
134,145
-
719
-
0.5%
- 11,709
-
8.03%
2
142,676
138,299
-
4,377
-
3.1%
-
7,555
-
5.18%
3
145,819
141,324
-
4,495
-
3.1%
-
4,530
-
3.11%
4
136,414
147,127
+ 10,713
+
7.9%
+ 1,273
+
0.87%
5
147,053
151,053
+
4,000
+
2.7%
+ 5,199
+
3.56%
6
141,332
145,202
+
3,870
+
2.7%
-
-
0.45%
7
135,847
151,278
+ 15,431
+ 11.4%
+ 5,424
+
3.72%
8
134,067
137,437
+
+
-
-
5,77%
9
141,545
166,891
+ 25,346
3,370
2.5%
+ 17.9%
652
8,417
+20,965
+ 14.37%
The two trustee districts on the north side (1 and 2) lost population, as did Trustee District 3
in the southeast. Three districts (5, 6, and 8) experienced moderate growth over the decade.
The fastest growth occurred in District 4 (10,713), District 7 (15,431), and District 9 (25,346).
Because District 9 is more than 14 percent over the mean population for all districts in HISD,
and District 1 is more than 8 percent below the mean, the range of 22.40% requires
redrawing the present trustee boundaries.
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REVISED HISD PROPOSED MAP
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HISD District Population Estimates Preliminary Plan
District 1
District 2
Total
Population
Pct
District 3
Total
142,739
Pct
Total
145,727
Pct
141,324
Anglo
38,293
26.8%
18,434
12.6%
9,453
6.7%
Hispanic
92,796
65.0%
66,482
45.6%
113,856
80.6%
Black (Non Hisp)
9,020
6.3%
59,372
40.7%
13,978
9.9%
Black + Hispanic
101,816
71.3%
125,854
86.4%
127,834
90.5%
1,926
1.3%
827
0.6%
3,581
2.5%
704
0.5%
612
0.4%
456
0.3%
Asian
Others
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HISD District Population Estimates Preliminary Plan (continued)
District 4
District 5
Total
Population
Pct
District 6
Total
154,051
Pct
Total
142,095
Pct
151,673
Anglo
30,059
19.5%
72,755
51.2%
50,874
33.5%
Hispanic
25,510
16.6%
41,893
29.5%
53,011
35.0%
Black (Non Hisp)
85,392
55.4%
9,950
7.0%
31,504
20.8%
Black + Hispanic
110,902
72.0%
51,843
36.5%
84,515
55.7%
12,315
8.0%
16,564
11.7%
15,236
10.0%
775
0.5%
933
0.7%
1,048
0.7%
Asian
Others
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HISD District Population Estimates Preliminary Plan (continued)
District 7
District 8
Total
Population
Pct
Total
147,810
District 9
Pct
Total
142,570
Pct
144,695
Anglo
72,187
48.8%
38,583
27.1%
11,502
7.9%
Hispanic
49,582
33.5%
81,414
57.1%
56,450
39.0%
Black (Non Hisp)
12,995
8.8%
16,330
11.5%
71,144
49.2%
Black + Hispanic
62,577
42.3%
97,744
68.6%
127,594
88.2%
Asian
12,064
8.2%
5,048
3.5%
5,060
3.5%
982
0.7%
1,195
0.8%
539
0.4%
Others
Total Population= 1,312,684
AVG POPULATION= 145,853.78
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Suite 1024
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Dr. Richard Murray
Dept. of Political Science
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
(713) 743-3909
(713) 743-3927
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