[en español clic aquí] Speak out. Push back. Bring the truth. 🔥 On Sept 10th, Mike Miles is the keynote speaker at Leadership Houston. Seriously? Protest during your lunch hour at 6300 Irvington Blvd. Let’s show them what Houstonians think of his leadership 📢 Speak at the September 10 HISD Board meeting starting at 5 pm and counter Mike Miles’ false narrative with the facts and your firsthand experience. Here is the agenda packet and step-by-step instructions to register to speak. Get signed up for any agenda item 1-18 before Labor Day to honor workers.   Read more

[en español clic aquí] HISD and Mike Miles are planning to pave over recently renovated Grimes Park in Sunnyside to build a new Career & Technology center. Read more in Sunnyside blindsided by plans to demolish a renovated park. Read more

[en español clic aquí] In this issue: How to fight for inclusive, full history for Texas schoolchildren and push back against state takeovers.    Read more

A new investigation reveals what’s behind HISD’s improved ratings: “Exclusive data from the Texas Education Agency obtained by the Houston Chronicle shows that without students completing those (college prep) courses, every high school in Miles’ (NES) reform model would have dropped by at least one letter grade in 2025. The district would have had five D-rated and two F-rated high schools – undercutting Miles’ claim of no F-rated campuses.”   Read more

[en español clic aquí] A longtime principal friend said if you do something that helps kids and helps the school ratings, do that thing. But if it helps the rating and harms kids, do not do that thing.   Read more

CVPE members voted on Saturday to endorse candidates for the November 3rd ballot in contested races. Read more

School has started. This week, we’re calling on you to speak up at Thursday’s HISD Board of Managers meeting. and we’re sharing our CVPE candidate endorsements, including our recommendation for Saturday’s precinct-chair vote for the open SBOE seat.  Read more

[en español clic aquí] Dan Dawer and Ruth Kravetz wrote an op-ed for The Texas Observer about how Mike Miles has inflated school ratings by systematically holding back students and limiting opportunities for thousands of Houston children, especially students in Black and Latino communities.   Read more

How do good educators and school leaders go to bed at night without shame? Here is the rule they live by. If it helps the child and also improves the school's rating, do it. But if it boosts the rating while hurting the child, don't do it. That's the rule to live by. Children must always come before data. Every time Read more

[en español clic aquí] Parents and students deserve more than a snake oil salesman like Mike Miles.  No more data games. Put students first.   Read more