Our children deserve the best and we need a bond for our schools. But not under Miles and not without local control.

Email as many letters as you can. The GHP email addresses are at the bottom of the sample letter. Please print a hard copy, so we can deliver a giant stack to GHP in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned for drop-off locations. Feel free to adapt as you see fit.

Here is part of the letter.

Miles has mishandled capital assets and ESSER funds, resulting in empty libraries and the firing of essential staff responsible for maintaining HVAC systems. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions have been spent on unnecessary purchases rather than needed infrastructure upgrades.

This bond will actually cost $11 billion—almost triple the $4.4 billion initially stated—contrary to claims that it won’t raise taxes.

Miles is under investigation for transferring public funds to his Colorado charter schools, has doubled the budget deficit, and wasted hundreds of millions while cutting student services and increasing class sizes. This bond will impose the largest school bond debt in history, and it should not proceed under his leadership. 

That is why a new poll shows that more than half of Houston ISD likely voters oppose the $4.4 billion bond proposal. “Z to A Research also found that 77% of respondents do not trust Miles to manage HISD's funds.”

Until we have a superintendent who is fiscally accountable to an elected school board of trustees, we cannot support this bond.