By keeping Mike Miles, Dallas ISD
will be sending a very negative message to the world about education
reform, and Dallas.
1. DISD will be keeping a leader
whose behavior necessitated a $100,000 investigation exposing many
unethical actions by him against DISD policy, and against the board
itself, actions that would lead to any CEO in the business world
being fired.
2. DISD will be keeping a leader who
disrespected some of the most respected leading education
professionals in DISD, and their record of achievement, pushing them
out of their critical leadership
positions: http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/08/three-of-our-four-annointed-super-principals-have-been-drummed-out-of-disd.html/
3. DISD will be keeping a leader who
has monumental difficulty in hiring and keeping staff who work
closest to him. Why are those closest to him leaving?
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/when-will-disds-revolving-door-end.html/
4. DISD will be keeping a leader who
it appears paid some of the closest staff he had conflicts with to
keep quiet:
http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/coggins-report-did-dallas-isd-superintendent-mike-miles-buy-former-communication-chiefs-silence.html/
To date those staff have kept quiet.
5. DISD will be keeping a leader
who, ignoring documented histories of achievement, imposed an
untested evaluation tool prematurely, evaluating staff without timely
opportunities for improvement (time he then requested and received
for himself from the Board), decimating teacher and principal numbers
with questionable termination threats and actions. A record number of
over 1,700 staff have already left
DISD: http://keranews.org/post/more-disd-teachers-resigned-year-last-and-some-say-mike-miles-why.
More are waiting to leave if Mike Miles stays.
6. DISD will be keeping a leader who
for the first time in history decreased the percentage of DISD
students taking the ACT exam by 21%, instead of the normal 20%
average annual increases since 2007. He decreased the percentage of
Black students in 2013 by 20.9% and Hispanic students by 24%, but
increased the percentage of White students by 0.7%. He then claimed a
testing improvement going from 17 to 18 without pointing out the
changes in the tested population:
http://www.dfpe.org/pdf/Student-Achievement-Data-Does-Not-Support-Retaining-Mike-Miles-091613.pdf
7. DISD will be keeping a leader who
was never questioned about the monumental 26% high school enrollment
decrease in his Harrison District while he was there with families
moving into the district causing over a 20% increase in elementary
enrollment:
http://schoolarchiveproject.blogspot.com/2013/05/damage-by-mike-miles-in-colorado.html
8. DISD will be keeping a leader who
is now facing a 5% decrease in 12th grade enrollment in
Dallas, the first decrease in DISD senior enrollment since the Class
of 2009 set the first of a series of senior all time enrollment
records, which were broken every year since 2009 as senior enrollment
constantly increased, until now. This sudden decrease in Dallas 12th
grade enrollment demands that Dallas study details surrounding 33%
decrease in senior enrollment during Mike Miles' 6 years in Colorado.
9. DISD will be keeping a leader
who, following the monumental loss of tenured staff his first year,
then saw a 26.8% increase in DISD discipline problems. Students had
seen the loss of power by their teachers. Mandatory open doors were
only part of the message. Students responded. Discipline problems
exploded.
Mike Miles must leave! Ethics cannot
be compromised without leaving a very bad image for reform!
Mike Miles understands that. He has
already sent his family back to Colorado. He sold his Dallas home.
Does the DISD Board understand?
Dallas ISD must not allow more of
what happened in Colorado under Miles to be repeated in Dallas:
http://schoolarchiveproject.blogspot.com/2013/05/damage-by-mike-miles-in-colorado.html
