Tim: Jesus. The TEA really has a lot of explaining to do.

The systematic destruction of HISD should be more of a story, tbh. This is the Republican plan for all public education.

She was principal of the year in 2023. A year later, she said HISD forced her to resignwww.khou.com Amanda Wingard was the principal at Neff Elementary in the Sharpstown area where she'd worked for 21 years. She attended Neff as a child and returned as a teacher.

It’s a big story now! The superintendent got caught funneling school funds to his failing charter schools in Colorado.

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.

Jesus. The TEA really has a lot of explaining to do.

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.

So kids who have their whole world reset every 2-3 years, who attend base-adjacent schools with varying degrees of quality (usually on the poorer end of adequate), and in the years when those kids had parents on frequent deployment. Almost nothing improves achievement in those conditions.

So those teachers went to the other schools districts in the area, or moved to Denver metro (since at that time, Denver Metro housing was not yet out of control.)

But I can also 100% see what hiring committees in urban Texas would have seen in him, and why he got their attention.

No. It was fucking Abbott. Houston and the TEA had nothing to do with it because the state put HISD in receivership.

Yes! Houston was powerless and has no blame here, but the TEA absolutely everything to do with appointing Mike Miles to the position, and it was the TEA that has managed the takeover. The head of the TEA is a toady of Abbott’s.

Yeah, Abbott would like him, too.

As perverse incentives go that was definitely one of the most perverse

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.

Hey you've got a job with meaning how dare you expect to be fairly paid as well.

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