Houston ISD investigating audio recording that sparked student protest at Madison High School

The students were protesting an alleged cover-up by school officials after the audio recording surfaced, supposedly of a sexually explicit conversation.

Reports of shots fired at James Madison High School in southwest Houston had some students and parents on edge Thursday morning.

Fortunately, it was only firecrackers.

Students were outside the school protesting alleged inappropriate behavior at the school between one or more HISD employees. It’s not clear if any students were involved in the alleged sexually explicit conversation.

The district has launched an investigation.

Read more from KHOU-11.

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