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It’s a big story now! The superintendent got caught funneling school funds to his failing charter schools in Colorado.
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JFC. Oh. Mike Miles, huh. OH. Dude ran for (Dem) Senate here. Didn’t get through the primary. Did raise a lot of money. Nobody ever saw where that went. Then he fucked with District 2 in Colorado Springs as superintendent. Lost the district a LOT of experienced teachers in a teacher shortage.
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Jesus. The TEA really has a lot of explaining to do.
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Given it was the Springs, and during that fad for tying teacher pay and promotion to student achievement using NCLB scores? And that school district is the south Springs, so a lot of those kids are there because their parents are at Fort Carson, Petersen, Schriver, or Norad. And have been elsewhere.
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As perverse incentives go that was definitely one of the most perverse
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Yeah. It might have worked with a carve-out for schools with at least 30% military kids, and to treat that carve-out as its own super-district in terms of data. But even that is quite a lot of wishful thinking. But conservatives LOVE the idea of punishing teachers for doing the work.
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Hey you've got a job with meaning how dare you expect to be fairly paid as well.