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Blogs
May 9, 2013
NAACP's Juanita Wallace Ready to Cancel DISD Superintendent Mike Miles' Black Card
Working on a big story about school reform these days. (Note to editor: definitely see completion this year, possibly early next. Best way you can help -- make sure I keep up my darned morale.) Speaking of morale, I wanted to go ahead and share a bit of the reporting with you in advance of the stor ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2013
Now Southern Dallas Businessmen Are Lining Up Against Mike Miles. But Why?
Three prominent Dallas business leaders have written a caustic public letter to Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles, taking him to task generally for not conferring with them personally on school reform and specifically for threatening the job of a particular high school principal popular in South ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2013
Will the Real Jesus Please Rise Up and Kick John Wiley Price in the Junk?
They say the devil can quote scripture as well as the righteous, which helps explain the confusion sown by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who whipped out his New Testament this week and rained thunder down on Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles. Price is burni ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2013
John Wiley Price Seems to Be Calling For the Crucifixion of "Fake Jesus" Mike Miles
John Wiley Price first inserted himself into the debate over school reform in Dallas ISD when he showed up at a November board meeting to lambast Superintendent Mike Miles' heavy-handed attempts to enact change. His specific complaint then was the departure of longtime administrator Shirley Ison-New ... More >>
News
April 11, 2013
DISD Trustees Are Ready to Fight for Principals
Too bad they won’t do that for the students
Blogs
April 11, 2013
Why is Sunset High School Principal Anthony Tovar Leaving?
What's happened at Sunset High School over the last seven years has been, if not quite a miracle, than at least proof that a struggling inner city school with a highly impoverished, almost entirely minority student body can be turned around. Dropout rates have gone down, graduation rates up. More st ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
DISD Principals and Trustees Have Another Month to Prepare for Battle with Mike Miles
Up to 50 Dallas ISD schools could have a changing of the guard next year, as principals announce their resignation or retirement. Superintendent Mike Miles has placed heavy emphasis on principal reform, including replacing those who underperform. But around a dozen principals are not going quietly ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2013
Bernadette Nutall Raises the Stakes in the War Over Protecting Favored DISD Principals
On March 22, I penned a story for this page in which I portrayed school district trustee Bernadette Nutall as appearing to be "neutral" on school reform. Her apparent neutrality made her a very singular exception to the rule at a heated community meeting the night before at Madison High School, wh ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2013
Carolyn Davis Comes Out Swinging Against School Reform, in Defense of Principals' Jobs
Everybody in school politics always says it's all about the children. That's almost never true. If you don't believe me, you should have been there last night. At a spirited, sometimes cantankerous meeting in the auditorium of James Madison High School in South Dallas, prominent black elected offic ... More >>
News
February 28, 2013
Mike Miles vs. Patronage: DISD's Impending Principal Purge
Are Dallas ISD trustees already preparing to protect the principals Mike Miles wants to fire?
Blogs
February 6, 2013
A Dallas Lawmaker Wants to Put Texas Superintendents' Sky-High Salaries to Voters
When Mike Miles was hired last year as superintendent of Dallas ISD, he was rewarded handsomely. His base salary of $300,000 per year put him near the top of the list of the state's highest-paid superintendents. Meet all the metrics for his possible $200,000 annual bonus, and his place at the top of ... More >>
News
January 17, 2013
Score One for Mike Miles
DISD's new super claimed he was targeted by a board witch hunt. He's right.
Blogs
January 14, 2013
Dallas ISD Is Looking to Put More Police Officers in Schools
In the wake of last month's shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the subsequent proposal by local state Representative Jason Villalba to arm specially trained teachers, DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander dismissed the idea that Dallas teachers will soon be roaming the halls packing heat. He did l ... More >>
News
December 27, 2012
Burn It All Down
Buzz looks back on 2012 before the memories go where they belong: up in smoke.
Blogs
December 26, 2012
With Jennifer Sprague Gone, Mike Miles Turns Over a New Leaf
On Friday evening, after schools had closed and most everything else was winding down for the holiday, the Morning News reported DISD communications chief Jennifer Sprague is resigning. Sprague's abrupt departure is the surest sign yet that Superintendent Mike Miles' administration is in crisis. Sh ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2012
Mike Miles Calls the DISD Audit that Criticized His Top Hires a "Witch Hunt"
Six months into his tenure at DISD, it's now official: Superintendent Mike Miles is hellbent on squandering whatever good will he was granted upon his arrival. Case in point was his news conference Wednesday to more fully address findings in a recent internal audit concluding that he and top staff h ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2012
Dreams of Fabulous Wealth Can Come True at DISD
Lots of people have nightmares. I do. So what? I've never covered that up. I told you about the one in which I work for The Dallas Morning News and I have to go in every day and write positive stories about the Perot family. See also: - OK, We Get it Already. The Perot Science Museum is Freakin' W ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2012
Dallas Teachers No Longer Have to Work That Extra 45 Minutes -- For Now
Way back in January, over the objections of just about everyone affected, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees tacked a mandatory 45 minutes onto every teacher's workday. How the teachers used the time would be up to principals. Not surprisingly, the decision sparked considerable resentment among teach ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2012
Dallas ISD and Race to the Top: Everything You Need to Know* About That $40 Million
There has been a lot of ink devoted over the past few days to Dallas ISD being named a finalist for $40 million in federal Race to the Top funds, which built to a crescendo yesterday when Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to town. That all sounds fantastic, but what does it mean? We decided to b ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2012
John Wiley Price Chastises Superintendent Mike Miles: "This is No Way to Run a District"
John Wiley Price is not a fan of DISD superintendent Mike Miles. He made that much clear when he appeared before the yesterday's board briefing to chide Miles on his first few months with the district. "My problem is, this district seems to be in terror, and this is no way to run a district," Price ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2012
Scratch That: DISD Teachers Love Superintendent Mike Miles
It wasn't so long ago that it seemed the relationship between DISD teachers and superintendent Mike Miles had gone sour. They bristled at Miles' reformist rhetoric, with its implication that steering the district in the right direction will require the heads of a lot of long-time educators. They did ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2012
Teachers All Over Dallas Feel Reviled By Dallas ISD and Superintendent Mike Miles
For several weeks I have been wondering if anybody else was hearing the same drumbeat of deep bitter dissatisfaction from Dallas public school teachers that I've been getting. So now it turns out somebody else has been hearing the same thing. But guess who! Tod Robberson! Oh, no! Not Tod Robberson! ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2012
Shirley Ison-Newsome, DISD's Teflon Administrator, Is On Her Way Out
Shirley Ison-Newsome is a survivor. The longtime DISD administrator, currently assistant superintendent, has managed to stay afloat at the district even as administration after boss after boss, administration after administration, have sunk to the watery depths. That she has managed emerge unharmed ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2012
Alan King, Dallas ISD Chief of Staff and Former Interim Superintendant, Resigns
We touched yesterday on what has been a bit of a rough start to the school year for Dallas ISD, and today's news won't help: Alan King, who led the district in the aftermath of former Superintendent Michael Hinojosa's departure last year, has resigned from the district. King served as CFO from Janu ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2012
Dallas Teachers Are Mad They Won't Get Paid Extra for Parent Conferences. Should They?
Dallas ISD's teachers are feeling beaten down, their union rep told me this morning: "Physically, emotionally and financially." The latest blow, she said: no longer getting paid for time they spend at after-school conferences with parents. The News' Matthew Haag had the story last night: DISD teach ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2012
Dirty Schools and Bad Teachers: Mike Miles Delivers His Assessment of DISD
You already knew that Mike Miles, DISD's new superintendent, isn't one to mince words. That was, after all, part of the thinking in hiring him: that a straight-talking, pull-no-punches leader could transform DISD from an improving but still struggling urban district into one of the country's finest. ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2012
Dallas ISD Will Bus 18,000 Employees for Convocation, and Teachers Are Pissed
Last week, Superintendent Mike Miles proposed giving teachers $750 in incentive pay for the coming school year. "Last year, we asked the teachers for a lot," Miles said, per the Morning News. "We asked the teachers to extend the number of minutes that they are teaching, and to increase the number of ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2012
DISD Misses Adequate Yearly Progress Again
The Texas Education Agency released its Adequate Yearly Progress report for 2012 a bit ago, and DISD and about three-quarters of its individual campuses missed the mark, just as they did last year, and the year before, and the year before. Much of that can be attributed to tougher standards. As DIS ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2012
Performance Pay Without the Performance: DISD Could Give Employees Extra Cash For Showing Up
Performance pay in public education is a touchy subject. It seems like a good enough idea in theory, but once you get into the details of how exactly performance will be defined and measured in practice, things start to get thorny. One option for avoiding controversy: Define performance as attendanc ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2012
Meet DISD's Other Mike Miles, The 9-Year-Old Basketball Prodigy
I have a Google Alert set up for Mike Miles, e.g. DISD's new superintendent, so that whenever his name is mentioned on the Interwebs, I get an email. The past couple of weeks, though, the inbox has been flooded not with news of the Marine-turned-school reformer but with a 9-year-old who, I am told, ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2012
Mike Miles, In First Official Day As DISD Superintendent, Likes Graduation-Rate Trend, Was a Little Embarrassed By Those Billboards
Given his high profile over the past few months and some much-publicized decisions, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Mike Miles has actually been DISD's superintendent. Which he has, of course, but not officially and not full-time until Monday, when he took the reins in earnest. It was a busy da ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2012
DISD Trims Budget Here and There, Keeps Teacher Pay Flat
The $1.15 billion 2012-13 budget approved unanimously by DISD trustees last night contained no real surprises. We already knew the state was cutting $37 million in funding. The district opted not to seek a tax increase, so to compensate, the district trimmed $22.8 million, or about 2 percent, from ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2012
Chamber to Use Billboards to Showcase Love for Incoming DISD Supe Mike Miles
Incoming DISD superintendent Mike Miles might have been getting the impression that Dallas wasn't as friendly as billed, what with all the pointed questions about administrators' pay scale. So, to prove we really do love him, the Dallas Regional Chamber is unrolling a billboard campaign timed to co ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2012
DISD's New Hires Will Make Six Figures. But Did Mike Miles Mention He's Saved The District $1.2 Million?
News has been trickling out as DISD Superintendent Mike Miles has filled out his leadership team. Thursday, it was Seattle Public Schools' Aurora Lora as assistant superintendent. Friday it was Ft. Worth ISD's Sylvia Reyna as school leadership chief and the fifth and penultimate member of Miles' cab ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2012
It's Not Just Lunch: The Jennifer Sprague-Mike Miles Story Has Officially Jumped the Shark
At his odd press conference defending the $185,000 salary of his communications chief, new Dallas ISD supe Mike Miles mentioned that he's never had coffee with Jennifer Sprague. It sounded unlikely, but you knew what Miles meant: They don't hang out. They're not bros. But it was only a matter of ti ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2012
Dear Jennifer Sprague: Earning Your Big Bucks at DISD is a Snap
Jennifer. May I call you that? This is just between us. I like your picture. There's a certain assertiveness there. I just like it. And this has all been so unfair so far. These news hacks -- guys like Dallas Observer Editor Joe Tone, Unfair Park EditorEric Nicholson and that TV guy over at Channe ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2012
Miles: If Jennifer Sprague Were a Fat White Dude, Her $185K Salary Wouldn't Be an Issue
Incoming DISD superintendent Mike Miles called Saturday's sit-down with the board a retreat, but that's probably a misnomer. The meeting was long and took place on a weekend, and there was a platter full of bacon, but Miles didn't give an inch. In a Q&A session with media beforehand, Miles fielded ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
Jennifer Sprague, DISD's New Communications Chief, Will Make $185,000 a Year. Yes, That's Too Much.
Big front-pager in today's Morning News about how Mike Miles, Dallas ISD's new superintendent, will pay his new communications chief, Jennifer Sprague, $185,000 a year. The general consensus among those interviewed for the story: Holy hell that's a lot of money for that job. Which makes sense becaus ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2012
Don't Worry. Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at DISD Hasn't Actually Quadrupled
Update at 5:19 p.m.: Dahlander provides some additional context for the numbers: Apparently OPR had not received the campus incident reports previously, which can be as minor as an injury on the playground to an upset parent in the office. Now that they receive them and review each one to determin ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2012
Miles Hires Five to DISD Administrative Team
A week after making one of his bigger hires in Teach for America's Charles Glover, incoming Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles continues to fill out his administrative team. Tuesday, the district announced that it has hired the first five of an eventual 20 executive direct ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2012
Mike Miles' DISD House-Cleaning is Under Way
You knew it was coming. Incoming DISD chief Mike Miles laid it out pretty clearly during his first presentation to the DISD school board last week, to say nothing of his reformist track record in Colorado Springs. But a month and a half before Miles' official July 1 start date, details about which h ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2012
In Dallas Independent School District, It's the Best School Board Money Can (and Did) Buy
Oh. Right. That. After all the candidate forums and the radio debates and the mayor-izen endorsements, it turned out that the roughly 117 people who care about the politics of Dallas Independent School District were just extras in the occasional stage play put on by the North Dallas elite, who thi ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2012
Mike Miles Wants Most DISD Educators on a Performance-Pay Plan Soon -- and He Wants Them to Like It
While his vision might not be as far-reaching as Deltron's, incoming DISD chief Mike Miles outlined his vision for the future Thursday in "Destination 2020," his first presentation to the board. The main job of the district, Miles said, is to "prepare students for college or for a Year 2020 workpla ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Damarcus Offord and Bernadette Nutall Took the Debate to the Radio Yesterday
We tuned in to the Dallas ISD's District 9 school board trustee forum on KHVN 970 yesterday between incumbent Bernadette Nutall and her challenger, 20-year-old Damarcus Offord. Host Robert Ashley and his station, it turns out, moderated the best debate thus far. The two clearly don't like each oth ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
If Mike Miles Stays Five Years He'll Make $350K a Year, and Other Details of His Deal with DISD
Mike Miles named Dallas ISD Superintendent from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo. Yesterday we raised some questions about how the Dallas Independent School District might handle the employment contract of Mike Miles, the district's new superintendent. Those details emerged last night -- you ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Here's What We Want to Know About New DISD Superintendent Mike Miles' Contract
The Dallas Independent School District is expected to officially hire Mike Miles, a former Army Ranger and U.S. Senate candidate and the superintendent of a small school district in Colorado, as its top official later today. Although Miles was named a "lone finalist" a few weeks back, his hiring was ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Five Questions for Mike Miles, DISD Superintendent (and Former Senate) Candidate
Yesterday, Mike Miles, an Army Ranger turned education reformer, was named the lone finalist for Dallas Independent School District's superintendent job. Today begins 21 days of tire-kicking, a mandatory waiting and vetting period before the district and Miles can officially wed. Plenty of people ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Predicting Mike Miles' Future at DISD: Broadly Speaking, I See Blood and Privatization
Not sure what to think of Mike Miles, the Dallas school board's pick for new superintendent? Here's a shortcut. Decide what you think of the Broad Superintendents Academy (BSA). Miles is a 2011 graduate of a boot camp for school superintendents in Los Angeles founded and funded by a foundation nam ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2012
Dallas ISD Names Mike Miles, Reform-Minded Military Vet from Colorado, Lone Finalist for Superintendent Job
Prediction: The next few weeks may not be a ton of fun for Mike Miles. Miles, the superintendent of Harrison School District Two in Colorado Springs, was named the lone finalist for the top job in Dallas ISD at a meeting this afternoon. The board, which voted 8-0 (with Carla Ranger abstaining), now ... More >>
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