Education Office, said that HISD classified around 3,000 students as homeless. Margaret Downing of the Houston Press said that Messiah predicted "with confidence" that the actual number of homeless is higher because some families are too embarrassed to self-identify as homeless. Messiah also said that in the years leading to 2010, the number of students classified as homeless increased because the school district became better able to identify homeless students and because the Late-2000s recession continued to have an effect on their families. As of 2011, between 50% and 66% of the non-Hispanic White students within the HISD boundaries enroll in private schools. In 2009, 72% of the non-Hispanic White students attending the district's schools were in magnet programs. In 2010 HISD had 15,340 non-Hispanic White students, the lowest numerical number of non-Hispanic Whites in recent history. This made up 7.6% of its student body. White enrollment increased to 17,313 by 2014, an increase by 13%. As of 2014, 8.2% of students were non-Hispanic White. Asian enrollment had increased since 2010. As of 2014 7,401 students were Asians, making up 3.5% of students. In 2013 due to the absorption of the North Forest Independent School District, HISD's enrollment increased to 210,000. Staff and faculty demographics As of 2007, Teach for America corps members made up about 25% of the number of HISD teachers. The district board voted to end its contract with TFA in 2019. Governance As of July 4, 2019 Dr. Grenita Lathan is the interim superintendent of schools. As of January 2018, the members of the HISD Board of Education are: District I: Elizabeth Santos District II: Rhonda Skillern-Jones District III: Sergio Lira District IV: Jolanda Jones District V: Sue Deigaard District VI: Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca District VII: Anne Sung District VIII: Diana Davila District IX: Wanda Adams In 1987 Gregory Curtis of the Texas Monthly stated that the board had class and racial tensions between lower income Whites, higher income whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. Superintendents Former HISD superintendent Rod Paige used the PEER Program. Improving scores from its schools have caused a lot of praise from others nationwide. Kaye Stripling took over when Rod Paige headed to Washington, D.C. as part of United States President George W. Bush's administration cabinet. After Stripling stepped down as the interim Superintendent, Abelardo Saavedra became the superintendent of the district on December 9, 2004. Terry Grier became the district's superintendent