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It’s outrageous to reward Miles' failures by pushing for more school closures in areas already devastated by food deserts, unsafe drinking water, and endless stopped trains.
This isn’t just a policy failure; it’s a direct assault on vulnerable neighborhoods and our future.
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Miles just told Houston ISD custodians they are terminated effective June 28.
They can re-apply for an hourly position with no benefits, no sick leave, no vacation.
Dishonorable
Unconscionable
@USDOL
- there’s more.
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HISD teachers booed F Mike Miles during the pay-for-performance presentation today. He threatened to remove disruptive people and find out who they are. Where would he put them? In a discipline zoom room? 🤔 Teachers want to be heard. Not patronized.
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#HISD
Supe repurposed his 2012 “Destination 2020” Dallas speech as “Destination 2035” speech to Houston teachers on Wed. Here’s the rerun side by side w/the original.
Miles is recycling policies that failed in Dallas. Tell him no thank you!
#opposehostiletakeover
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We must NOT entrust our children and schools to
#HISD
Supe F Mike Miles. Worst organized teacher inservice ever. This will harm everyone in every community.
Stand up. Fight back.
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Miles boasted that he’ll have every vacancy filled by the first day of school.
Miles got a TEA waiver to hire teachers with no degree, no certification, and/or no experience.
How is that good for kids?
Stand up. Fight back.
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Under threat of lawsuit, Morath delays release of A-F ratings. He finally utters something sensible, saying “If no campuses in the state can possibly achieve it, that isn't a reasonable goal.”
Stand up. Fight back. It works!
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#HISD
Miles blew nearly $100 million dollars on "NES technology, furniture and equipment" this school year.
-new smartboards on classrooms that already had new ish smartboards
-spin bikes still in their boxes
-new furniture for HISD Admin Bldg so everything would “match”
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Turning libraries into Zoom Discipline Centers is unconscionable!
Stand up for Houston schoolchildren and public education! SATURDAY, 9am at HISD, 4400 W 18th
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Listen to
#HISD
superintendent Mike Miles belittle HISD principals at a meeting earlier this week. This is not a good example for children. Save our schools.
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Allow students extra time to finish their speeches when they appear before the board.
#HISD
should give grace to student speakers. They are learning to use their voice. It’s is scary speaking before an audience of adults in a new place. We emailed the BOM. No response.
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Students protest during lunch at Carnegie Vanquard High School
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HISD Ultimatum: Be good robots or be reassigned.
#HISD
Division Head told Cage ES & Blue Ribbon Project Chrysalis on Friday.
Stand up for families and teachers. Find out how to oppose the state takeover at
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Karina Quesada a mother of HISD students shares her opinion "Many of the changes he's imposing on the 28 schools are old, tired, and failed reforms", also "Relationships matter, making teachers reapply for their jobs sends out the message that you don't care about them".
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“Four billion dollars seems like a lot of money to hand to an unaccountable, unelected board and supervisor.”
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Yesterday,
#HISD
Central Office staff demanded that NES/A teachers dismantle their classroom libraries
Libraries turned into zoom discipline centers. NOW classrm libraries and comfy reading books called “clutter.”
Save the children
#NoHISDTakeover
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Mike Miles said he regretted closing schools today and said people exaggerated fears about the damage the weather would cause.
Maybe he should use his prediction ring to go back in time to see what Hurricane Harvey & the 2021 winter blackout did.
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It occurred to me that the photos in this board room are all kids in their school library-happy!-HISD teacher
#TakeoversFail
#HISD
kids need libraries, certified teachers with degrees and experience, and joy.
HISD children are more than a test score. Miles’ plan is racist
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THANK YOU 2 teachers whose NES & NESA classrooms are welcoming in spite of Miles foolish belief that they be barren and sterile.
THANK YOU 2 principals who shield teachers from Miles' unhinged decisions.
THANK YOU 2 all who stand w/HISD children & teachers.
Oppose the occupation.
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Julisa Ortiz said," I found the most interesting was... showing us kids as market share for charters. This is basically equating us to candy bars sold at the gas station..I do not like being called market share. What I also don't like is being equivalent to a STAAR test result."
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Shame, shame, shame on
#HISD
BOM for rubber stamping everything w/no discussion
- Miles gets $1M blank checks, no board approval needed,
-Teachers won’t need degrees or credentials checked
-Libraries turned into discipline centers
Fight back!
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Parents, teachers and young children participated in a read-in for freedom.
30 people spoke forcefully for libraries, certified teachers and equity.
Then Miles turned his back on parents, students & teachers.
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Tinker vs De Moines ISD Supreme Court case says students do not lose their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door.
F Mike Miles, that means NES students too!
Walkouts at magnet and more affluent campuses: Bellaire HS, Carnegie Vanguard HS, Frank Black MS, HAIS, Heights HS, Lanier MS, Mickey Leeland YMCP, Neff ES & others.
While NES schools are either locked in or manipulated into staying inside w/first fun activity all year.
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Apparently,
#HISD
Supe wants to merge Project Chrysalis with Navarro MS and move De Zavala ES students to Cage ES next week.
Would he treat affluent kids and their families like chess pieces on a game board?
Whose next? Protest after school 4-5 at Cage Wed.
@SylvesterTurner
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Parents and children from 5 NES “reconstitution” elementary schools- Berry, Elliot, Pugh, Martinez, and Scroggins-protesting at HMW with homemade signs in support of their teachers
HISD Press Guy told parents to move outside the fence. They said no. Families matter!
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The A-F ratings were DESIGNED to make the public lose faith in public schools. Gov Abbott is playing political football with our kids!
“Texas Education Agency will institute a new school ratings system in which a district can receive a lower grade despite better performance.”
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Standing up for meaningful learning in welcoming spaces, fully and equitably funded public schools, and respect for teachers and communities.
#HISD
#OpposeHostileTakeover
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In the fifth grade, a librarian put in my hand a book about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Had it not been for that librarian and that book, I would not be standing here today.
Libraries produce leaders to make the world better for all of us.
#HISD
#MoralUniverse
#TakeoversFail
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I’m concerned for the children that they’re going to lose their love of learning, lose their love of coming to school. School is supposed to be a safe place and I think that for some children school is now going to be a place of drill and kill.”
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Ask
@SecCardona
to add Houston ISD to his tour!
There’s no greater feeling than visiting a classroom full of hope and excitement about a great school year ahead.
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Oppose the hostile takeover of HISD. Sign the petition at . BC Elmore student with her mom says
#STAARDoesNotDefineMe
#TEAGoAway
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Houston Public Media confirmed that multiple Houston ISD campuses are not providing speech therapy, just over a month after the district slashed 21 special ed contractors.
Oppose the takeover. Speak at Thur board meeting. File a grievance.
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A culture of fear harms kids:
#HISD
Chief Sandi Massey tells teachers to quit if they don’t comply. Houston deserves better.
#FireMikeMiles
#EndTheTakeover
#TakeoversFail
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Governor Abbott is coming to town on his voucher/ state takeover tour on May 2. Can you join a protest to stand up for democracy and public education on Tuesday from 5-7 pm? Read more at
RSVP at
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NES & NES aligned principals were told kids must carry traffic cone to the bathroom & place it outside bathroom so others know # of kids in the restroom.
Does
#HISD
Miles think he’s prison warden of communities of color?
We must nurture and support our kids. Not this!
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Herod principal Jessica Berry said the request for her resignation was made after she told her direct supervisor HISD hadn’t posted its special education operating procedures to the state’s legal framework website, which is legally required by the TEA.
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Miles has made some terrible HVAC decisions, like turning off the AC every day at 5 pm.
It’s August. Even in schools with relatively new AC, that just doesn’t work.
He is screwing up the AC on purpose to push a bond. Trust is gone—no bond until he’s out.
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"At this rate, there won't be anyone left to turn on the air conditioning in the middle of August when we go back to school," posted a parent.
Cutting already bare bones low wage custodial staff is unconscionable while tripling # making >$200K
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Miles did not even bother to show up to listen during public comment and the unelected unaccountable board of managers banished most of the speakers to a zoom room. And arrested one teacher.
This is just the beginning of bad things to come.
Show up next week.
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What’s happening in HISD today is part of an orchestrated campaign to dismantle public ed. Miles subscribes to the disruptive change model - endless reorgs, firings, misinformation and chaos at every turn- to make it hard for communities to fight back.
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7 HISD parent protests so far
Crocket ES, Browning ES, Meyerland PVA, Neff ES x2, West Briar, School @ St George, Herod ES
More on Friday
Lantrip at 8:15 in the East End
Hamiton at 7:45 in the Heights
Plus Sat City Hall Protest @ 9:30 am
Protest at City Hall, Saturday at 9:30am.
#saveHISD
#EndtheTakeover
#NoMoreHarm
#theRealHISD
#FireMikeMiles
@HFT2415
@HoustonCVPE
@HOUmanitarian
@ThaRidgemont4
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“Mike Miles has steadfastly refused to listen to educators, parents and students about what they need, and has refused to accept criticism with anything other than absolute disdain from people he was appointed to serve.”
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Jessica Campos; Community member and HISD parent. "We aren't buying what you are selling" "I sat down... all I saw was black and brown faces and I realized that you used the Zoom discipline strategy" "I felt so discriminated".
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NOT normal for HISD supe to put on a musical at teacher inservice, instead of teacher training focused on serving children.
Miles made fun of reporters, 1st amendment, electives, playgrounds...
Meanwhile, homeless services dept dismantled
HISD people have been spending their time on some weird stuff:
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TEA has no respect for students if it still requires English Language learners upon their return to school to write five essays and complete 3 online tests in the aftermath of the Texas storm and COVID trauma?
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“Millions of Texas public school dollars are being diverted out of state…The man believed to be responsible, HISD Superintendent Mike Miles.”
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In
#HISD
Superintendent Mile’s “brave new world,” affluent kids get libraries and librarians.
But for the children who live in some of Houston’s most under-resourced neighborhoods, it’s test prep worksheets and zoom discipline removal rooms
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Were Miles’ endless, tedious slide decks that he forced teachers to use really so effective? Did it truly lead to a 10% growth in biology?
How did he do it? Miles simply tested thousands fewer students in Biology than in previous years.
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For this upcoming year, HISD has cut close to 60% (~170) of wraparound service specialists, 60% (~50) of college advisors and every single Special Education social worker
Save our schools from Miles and the board of managers.
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"You don’t create equity by taking away the good things, including certified teachers (and libraries)," an
#HISD
parent at an NES school said.
Keep our libraries Protest, Sat at 9 am at HISD
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There’s no way his cuts will save that much since he’s adding layers of “leadership” with six figure salaries as well as Kitamba & GRH consultants
Miles omits info & BOM rubber stamps, so we won’t know until public info request allows side by side comparison after
#HISD
reorg
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Will you tell your electeds to please show up at Miles next “tell you more lies” mtgs? Next one’s Tue.
Dual Language only in English?
Libraries made into zoom discipline rooms. Teacher apprentices w/out degrees getting more $ than kinder teachers. Chaos everywhere NES
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HISD Police under F Mike Miles just accused a teacher of trespassing.
Instead of escorting him off the premises, they arrested him. Hostile takeover. The public has a right to be in a public building. Can we trust Miles with our kids?
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Heavy-handed & immoral to cut so many blue-collar workers while giving $10k-$30k raises to already highly paid HISD Admin.
Cuts: custodians (close to 200), bus safety inspectors (~ 2/3) & groundskeepers getting the boot next
Blame TEA!
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“We don’t like it Mr. Miles. We’ve all had enough of you.”
-HISD Student
#FireMikeMiles
#EndTheTakeover
#NoTrustNoBond
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Seven school districts sue TEA over changes in A-F accountability system.
Due to the change of the rules alone, school districts can expect to see a worse grade even if students performed better this year than last.
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READ-IN TONIGHT (Aug 10). Bring your favorite book to read before/during the Board Mtg
Can't come? Post a photo of you w/your favorite book Tag us at
@HoustonCVPE
#HISD
#KidsNeedLibraries
#EvenPrisonsHaveLibraries
#TakeoversFail
RSVP:
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HISD approved budget 9-0. GOOD: Competitive teacher pay raises & biggest raises for bus drivers, food service in a long time. BAD: new central office depts, many expensive contracted services including scripted curriculum, replacing almost all teachers at 3 schools due to STAAR
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We are here to SAVE OUR SCHOOLS❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Packed rooms for HISD’s board meeting. The room where it happens and the overflow room are filled. I’m told over 100 people have signed up to speak
@KPRC2
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“That (the state) would impose a supe who would close 28 libraries in schools that primarily cater to Black and brown students and turn them into detention centers in 2023, and everyone is supposed to be OK with that. Are you kidding me?”-Mayor Turner
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#HISD
Board of managers admit to violating the TX Open Meetings Act when they met privately in groups of 3 to talk about board business. This happened even after they were sworn in. Is there a consequence when the unelected BOM break the law?
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There are just 25 seats for the public in the HISD Boardroom designated for 310. Everyone else have been banished to the zoom room.
This is a hostile state takeover. Shame.
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HISD supe Mike Miles tripled the # of Central Office Staff earning more than $200K.
Now, he’s telling schools they have to live within their means and cut spending by 12%.
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Raise your hand if you’ll join these amazing students by speaking at the
#HoustonISD
Board of Managers meeting this Thursday at 5pm. The portal to register to speak opens today (Monday) at 5pm and closes Wednesday at noon.
#solidarity
#HISD
#signthepetition
#FireMikeMiles
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Dear teacher:
May your day be filled with meaning and joy.
May your students build a beautiful bridge towards their future because of you.
May the perpetrators of this immoral
#HISD
takeover find challenges in whichever direction they walk.
Children are more than a test score
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The
#HoustonISD
takeover is a politically motivated, irresponsible experiment. It will worsen inequities & disenfranchise Hou voters; ⬆️teacher turnover; ⬆️school closures in poor areas, ⬆️charters that under-enroll students w/disabilities to inflate A-F ratings, & ⬆️STAAR prep
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"We've seen enough, we've heard enough, and we've had enough."
Thank you to everyone who has spoken at board meetings on behalf of
#HISD
educators!
Visit for more info.
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Community outcry about Libraries being eliminated to make room for Zoom discipline centers. Read In Thur 4:30 on at HISD
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40% principal turnover in 11 mo. w/HISD Miles. 110 principals at 105 schools.
#Stopthebloodbath
If you haven’t yet signed, would you sign the petition to join the fight to end the takeover?
Marathon not a sprint
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Public education won in yesterday’s primary runoffs for HD146 + SD15.
Let Lauren Simmons and Molly Cook serve as a progressive blueprint for taking on the establishment and mobilizing the Democratic base.
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Are we giving our students so many practice tests (BOY, MOY, EOY, TEA interim assessments, district-created curriculum-aligned assessments with narrow windows to administer so board members have something to talk about? What about giving teachers and students more time to learn?
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Hundreds of people came together Saturday morning to send the TEA and Mike Miles a message that turning libraries into detention rooms is nuts!
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Miles is reducing teaching and learning to something soulless and factory-like.
The worst part is that these methods rarely do more than produce a temporary, small bump in scores, not any real, sustainable growth.”
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Contact your elected representatives and ask them to call for a federal investigation and for Mike Miles' immediate resignation.
Houston deserves a public education system run by competent, democratically elected representatives.
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STAAR online system crashing all over the state. Students get kicked out, then back on for 10 min & then kicked out again. Will TEA hold students hostage all day?
#CancelSTAAR
.
@TexasAFT
@indivisibleHOU
@pastors4txkids
@NPEaction
@texas
@VotePennyShaw
@DiegoBernalTX
@AlmaAllen131
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We are outraged that our right to elect people to represent us has been stolen from us.
Miles was run out of Dallas ISD for his horrible management style and poor results.
Join us 👉
Sign the petition 👉
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Classic bait and switch
Last summer
#HISD
Miles promised 800 NES families a Japan trip
Now just 115 Fleming, Key, McReynolds, Forest Brook, Sugargrove and Henry 8th graders will go this week.
Less than 20 per school.
At an estimated cost of $4.5M, that’s $39K/kid
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The sooner Miles leaves Houston the better. He's not creating a high-performance culture. Miles often refers to his plans as a hospital model. In what hospital does a doctor get handed a dirty scalpel that he has to clean and the wrong patient chart?
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Miles says the data shows NES is good for students and test scores.
Never mind that many schools forced into NES were already high-performing schools that served Black and Brown students. He cherry picked his schools before he cherry-picked his data.
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A state takeover of HISD makes no sense. HISD has a B+ financial rating & a B+ academic rating. In fact, the takeover attempt is based on the STAAR performance of a single school in the immediate aftermath of Harvey.
We oppose any efforts by TEA to take over the HISD!
Join us!
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“Our libraries are not supposed to be prisons. We do not want our kids go back to COVID conditions. We’ve already done the Zoom room. It didn’t work.”-Parent Kourtney Revels
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A win for public education- parents, students and teachers! After outpouring of public outcry and testimony, HISD indefinitely postpones illegal charter school giveaway proposal.
@HoustonPubMedia
@mariabenzon
@HFT2415
@annesung
@publicpoLEEcy
@KariLeon14
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Let’s bring in the New Year right. Let’s dump bad Texas laws that harm kids and schools.
#CVPE
#FundOurSchools
#PublicEducation
#PublicEducationMatters
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Parents and AFT president standing with teachers at the press conference before the practice picket.
Come on down! We are marching at 5:30 pm
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An HISD parent states, “I can’t believe I’m still getting this email today- two days after the last day of school and after I have a report card in hand saying my child has been promoted. At this point after all the news coverage this feels like a deliberate lie.”
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“I’m OK going into fund balance to fund this for the next couple years.”
He’s also burning through the teacher balance that Hou has built through blood, sweat and tears. When he leaves, HISD will be left w/a giant deficit and husks of schools to rebuild.
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Two thriving dual language schools in HISD were forced to go magnet to stop HISD Supe Mike Miles from dismantling the program. Now, families who would be zoned for Helms and Wharton will have to apply.
No Trust, No Bond.
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Houston ISD teacher tells CNN that in person learning puts students at risk.
@SafeReopening
@AldineAFT6345
@CyFairAFT
@NPEaction
@pastors4txkids
@HFT2415
@TexasAFT
@HoustonDSA
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Mike Miles is spending HISD's money like a drunken sailor.
#HISD
#HoustonISD
#houston
#CVPE
#TakeoversFail
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“HISD teacher: State takeover is hurting my students | Opinion”
Go away Miles. You are hurting kids.
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One veteran secondary teacher told The Associated Press that many of her colleagues are concerned Miles’ system of tightly timed and controlled class instruction will turn teaching into assembly-line work.
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Miles and the Houston ISD Board of Managers are now talking about Miles’ abominable curriculum.
Not one board of manager has asked why the NES curriculum does not include students reading actual books.
Shame on all of them.
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Fight this policy that makes it easy for any HISD school to become a charter school as soon as next year. Trustees wouldn’t even have a vote. Why is the vote on Thur 9am hearing and not at a regular board mtg?
Press conference Monday at 4 pm at IBEW
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Miles cut school funding by 12% but tripled # of staff making > $200K. Miles’ musical $470K, but cut homeless services.
We need a bond, but It’s irresponsible to give Miles a $5B bond w/out accountability provided by an elected board.
No trust. No bond
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“Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, once known as the Rush Limbaugh of Texas, has organized a group of pastors to push for school vouchers, in opposition to the dynamic Pastors for Texas Children, which has staunchly supported public schools.”
Texas: Voucher Advocates Form Their Own Pastors’ Group to Undermine Public Schools
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Campo said he makes clear to parents that he’s not their “advocate.” “I can’t listen to what a parent says and then intervene (on their behalf.) If I do that, I’m totally under-treading the authority of the superintendent and his team.”
Supe 1
Children 0
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Miles wants to spend $2.5M staffing schools with 19yr olds from
@uhouston
.
Building a teacher pipeline with universities is important, but what is the university doing to ensure that Miles cannot use these contracts to fill classrooms with students who have not yet graduated?
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Governor Abbott has no business removing our democratically elected school board. State takeovers almost exclusively target districts with high percentages of Black, Brown and low income students. All around the country state takeovers have failed miserably.
#NoHISDTakeover
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Protest at 11 am on Thur.
Speak at board meeting later the same day.
Miles Out. Demand local control.
Save our schools. Save our children. Save our city.
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“The HISD State takeover is not about 1 school or 30 schools," Turner wrote. "This is a concerted attempt to take over public ed in the largest district while intentionally side stepping schools they dare not touch. This is a long term occupation.”
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Inmoral
#HISD
takeover is part of a larger effort 2 dismantle public Ed.
✅Set unrealistic goals based on standardized test scores.
✅Strip school boards of all decision making capacity.
✅Decrease transparency through elimination of public meetings and limiting public comment
@ajcrabill7
and
@GreatCitySchls
are aggressively pushing so-called “Student Outcome Focused Governance” - here is why it’s neither student focused, nor is it a governance model that democratic school boards should use. 1/
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