May former Dallas ISD superintendent Mike Miles be heading to Houston? It relies on who you ask. The Texas Schooling Company denies {that a} determination has been made to call a brand new Houston ISD superintendent. However in keeping with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, Miles has been chosen to guide the nation’s seventh largest district.
“The commissioner ought to affirm or deny. This course of is completely flawed,” Turner stated. “One particular person in Austin is deciding who would be the superintendent and managers.”
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, additionally agreed with Turner on listening to the speculations about Miles being chosen as the brand new superintendent.
“So it’s vital for the TEA Administrator to do what is true — that’s to depart HISD within the construction that it’s during which permits our superintendent, lecturers, and oldsters to spend money on the betterment of our faculty district and permit mother and father to be viable stake holders within the training of their youngsters,” Lee stated in a Twitter thread. “This must be concerning the individuals of HISD, not politics. I do know that all of us can see this can be a takeover of a functioning public faculty system.”
A TEA spokesperson advised the Defender that the official identify of the superintendent and board of managers shall be introduced on June 1.
Miles was the previous superintendent of the Harrison Faculty District in Colorado. He held that place for six years earlier than serving as Dallas ISD’s superintendent starting in 2012.
Miles resigned from that function in 2015 to spend time together with his household.
Earlier than his departure, Miles survived a no-confidence vote from the Dallas Faculty Board who voted 6-3 in a movement to fireplace Miles, in keeping with reviews from KERA.
He’s now the founder and CEO of Third Future Faculties, a community of public constitution faculties serving 4,500 college students in Texas, Colorado, and Louisiana.
Dallas ISD and Miles had been on the heart of controversy throughout his tenure, as mother and father alleged officers inside the faculty district took cash away from “in danger” college students to pay for magnet and elite faculties.
Miles can be credited with introducing the Accelerating Campus Excellence turnaround program to assist struggling Dallas faculties, an initiative critics say has confirmed to be expensive.
Some Dallas faculty trustees have had considerations about Miles’ administration fashion and efficiency; a popularity that considerations many Houston training advocates.
The Houston Lecturers Union amongst others shared their ideas concerning the lack of transparency on Twitter, calling it a “hypocrisy” that with just a little over two weeks till the beginning of the takeover there’s nonetheless no phrase on who the HISD superintendent shall be, but, lecturers are anticipated to provide resignation discover no later than 45 days earlier than the primary day of instruction for the varsity 12 months.
“The individuals’s concentrate on Miles is a misplaced. The true drawback right here is the governor and the best way during which this takeover is occurring, no transparency,” stated Ruth Kravetz, co-founder of Neighborhood Voices for Public Schooling. “That is simply an try of the governor and Republicans to take over our democratic establishments in cities with giant Black and Brown communities. We’re two weeks away from Miles being appointed and they’re pretending that he’s not.”
