. >> reporter: houston mom jessica c campos has spent the entire summer dreading returning to schoolike i spent the entire summer fighting coming here, i can breathe >> reporter: ever since her daughter's elementary became one of 28 schools replacing their library with a center for work and discipline what's happening to the hhousto schools? >> it feels like they're being taken apart, dismantled. destroyed. >> reporter: this summer, the state of texas took over hisd, a district of almost 2,000 kids, a blue city in a red state they have swapped the superintendent for a charter school owner and former leader of dallas schools. some like houston mayor turner say it's a hostile takeover. >> let's not be fooled >> reporter: everyone agrees, houston schools needed to change some were failing. many students fell behind in reading and math district leaders tried to improve. and the state even gave them a b rating in 2022 they took over anyway and laid off employees and replaced libraries in underperforming schools so they could give some teachers higher salaries >> i can't afford a laptop fo