We need the checks and balances of an elected board that help to constrain a superintendent run amok. Miles needs to go! But right now, it is the governor who wields all the power. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

The principal screener is “theoretically” delayed until 2025 but, in Miles' own words, he “will continue to use instructional data  and student achievement data, written evaluation, and any other appropriate & relevant info in decisions affecting someone’s contract status.”

Nothing has really changed, just like for teachers. A couple of weeks ago, on spring break evening, teachers received their proficiency screener results via email. Many of the teachers with the most experience, whose academic results are strong, who are respected by students and parents alike,- are not even eligible to stay at their NES school. People should be evaluated in the workplace, but what Mike Miles has created is junk science. 

How many of our children’s teachers got an email saying they aren’t good enough? HFT filed a lawsuit that has temporarily halted the use of Miles’ pay for performance teacher evaluation system, but just like with principals, teachers continue to be terrorized.

How many principals who are considered exceptional leaders will be replaced with Miles’ sycophantic principal academy graduates?

TRANSLATION: Keep fighting. Miles is gaslighting the public again.

Here are some news reports:

• Houston Public Media: Miles “will proceed with the controversial pay-for-performance evaluation system for principals. But, according to Miles, the mid-year screening that threatened many campus leaders' jobs won’t have an effect on the final outcome.”
• Houston Chronicle: Principal screener delayed until 2025; 
• Houston Press: A Tough Rainy Day for the HISD Superintendent Mike Miles and His Board of Managers
• Houston Landing: Dozens of Houston ISD schools will be required to make 12% budget cuts next year

Yesterday, parents, students, teachers, and community protested inside and outside Miles’ state of the district luncheon. Read more.

• Ch 39: Downtown protest: A Baker mom at the midday protest said, “Mike is taking the joy out of schools. I think he is doing it purposefully. He’s trying to drive parents like me out of the schools. He’s taken away fine arts, libraries and field trips at some schools…that help our children love learning
• Houston Chronicle- Miles' first HISD State of the District address met with protesters inside and outside the event. “A grandmother of an HISD elem student, shouted she was “concerned teacher turnover will be so high this yr that every child in every school will be negatively impacted.”
• Houston Public Media: Dozens of people showed up to protest Miles’ plans for Houston ISD outside of his State of the District speech. Inside the meeting, three attendees disrupted Miles and were escorted out.
• Univision: Así avanzan las protestas por la intervención estatal al HISD 
• Ch 13: School feels like jail: “"My state of the district, to use his sports analogies that he talks about the percentage of this," a parent, Christina Wilkerson, said. "I would say 50% of his fan base is leaving the stadium. He's losing this game."

Watch the board meeting speeches

• Youtube video of HISD Management Board Meeting
• CVPE posts selected board meeting speeches on instagram.com/houstoncvpe. We'll add more later.