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June 4, 2013
Former Dallas ISD Chief of Staff Jerome Oberlton Accused of Taking in Bribes in Atlanta
When Dallas ISD chief of staff told Superintendent Mike Miles last week that he was facing federal criminal charges, he wasn't kidding. The indictment, which stems from his three-year tenure as chief information officer at the Atlanta Public School System, was unsealed Monday. The scheme detailed b ... More >>
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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 >>
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March 8, 2013
More than 270 Dallas ISD Teachers Resigned this Week, Cashing in on the District's Bonus
This week, Dallas ISD's Ross Avenue headquarters was hit with a flurry of teacher resignations, with 279 rank-and-file educators telling the district they were calling it quits. This minor exodus had nothing to do with teachers' well-known frustration with Superintendent Mike Miles. This was policy. ... More >>
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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 >>
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January 15, 2013
Jennifer Sprague, DISD's Former Communication Chief, Has Rebranded Herself as "The Strategy Maven"
It seems like only yesterday that erstwhile DISD communications chief Jennifer Sprague blew into town alongside new superintendent Mike Miles. With a $185,000 a year salary, the 31-year-old Sprague's name quickly became a synonym for "overpaid and under-qualified," and after about six less-than-spec ... More >>
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January 10, 2013
Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline
If DISD's Mike Miles has a plan for that, then let's give him a chance.
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December 14, 2012
Dora Sauceda, the DISD Executive Accused of Faking Her Moving Expenses, Has Resigned
Several things emerged from the internal Dallas ISD audit the Morning News got its hands on earlier this week. One was that Superintendent Mike Miles didn't hesitate to bend or break established protocol when he was assembling his leadership team. Another was that DISD really didn't want the report ... More >>
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October 31, 2012
Shirley Ison-Newsome Left DISD Yesterday With a $142,000 Golden Parachute
A bizarre and still murky series of events ended yesterday when longtime DISD administrator Shirley Ison-Newsome officially stepped aside, just four days after she announced, then promptly rescinded, her resignation in favor of retirement. Ison-Newsome has been a powerful, polarizing figure during ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 11, 2012
Dear Jennifer Sprague: Feeding Principals Empty Catchphrases Does Not Count As Communications
With the school year underway and Mike Miles' graphically detailed list of all the ways that DISD fails, it's been easy to forget about communication chief Jennifer Sprague's short resume, outlandish salary, and her cringe-worthy performance at her first board meeting this summer. But lest you forg ... More >>
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September 25, 2012
Union: DISD's Teachers Want Answers About the District's New Mystifying "Spot Observations" [Updated]
The Dallas Independent School District has been wrestling with how best to evaluate its teachers for going on forever. In August of 2011, the district unveiled a plan to develop an evaluation system, a lengthy, three-committee process that would take until 2014 to implement. That's right: just creat ... More >>
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August 24, 2012
Let's Hope Mike Miles Can Superintend Better Than He Can Dance
NBC5. Note: Jump to the :35 mark for the dancing. First, a question: why do people in leadership positions in Dallas feel its a good idea to dance in public? Because it's not. You would think they would have learned that after this video, which was apparently so embarrassing it was pulled from You ... More >>
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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 >>
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July 20, 2012
A Prayer for Pinkston: SMU, DISD Team Up to Go Cradle-to-Career in West Dallas
By most measures, LG Pinkston High School is failing. The school, which neighbors Fish Trap Lake in a poor area of West Dallas, has higher dropout rates, lower graduation rates, and lower test scores than the rest of Dallas ISD. It is considered academically unacceptable by the state and has been fo ... More >>
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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 >>
News
June 14, 2012
The North Dallas Plot to Take Over DISD
Rich, white, North Dallas businessmen are plotting to take over Dallas' schools. Maybe this time it'll work.
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 >>
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May 22, 2012
Mike Miles Taps Teach for America's DFW Director as DISD's New Chief Talent Officer
Teach for America, the elite student-teacher pipeline founded by Highland Parker Wendy Kopp, is often tossed into the bucket with the rest of the tools in the reform movement's toolbox, from charter schools to performance-based pay and the like. For that, and for its place outside the labor movement ... More >>
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May 16, 2012
While Miles Cleans House at DISD, Will Old-Guard Warriors Try to Burn It Down?
Wow. I wonder how many other ancient mariners of the Dallas public school situation put down their daily newspapers this morning, nodded as I did, and thought to themselves, "So they're messing with Ison-Newsome." That's serious. It could mean somebody's smart. Or stupid. I'm leaning toward somebod ... More >>
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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 >>
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May 2, 2012
Citizen Mike Rawlings Has Left the Building; Mayor Mike is Ready to Talk DISD Again
Citizen Mike Rawlings has put his Mayor cape back on and will host local, federal, state and Dallas ISD officials at a news conference Friday morning. The event, at 9:30 a.m. at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center, is geared toward providing new strategies for Dallas ISD to "increase regional coo ... More >>

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