Mike Miles (school superintendent)

Miles created the reform effort Destination 2020 which asked for improvements to be made by 2013 and 2015. Another plan, Accelerating Campus Excellence" (ACE) involved moving new principals and teachers into campuses and attracting high-performing teachers to needy campuses. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price criticized Miles and called for his ouster. Miles' family initially moved from Colorado Springs to Dallas, but they returned to Colorado Springs in 2013 as a result of media attention on Miles' career. In 2014 Miles expressed a desire to get additional compensation in his contract. Miles attempted to get amendments to his Dallas ISD contract but the board did not approve them. Miles resigned from Dallas ISD in 2015. ==Post-Dallas ISD==

Third Future Schools After Miles resigned from Dallas ISD, he founded a new chain of charter schools based in Colorado called Third Future Schools. Third Future Schools consists of 11 public charter schools in Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. HISD employee terminations, and accusations of misuse of funds. Protests occurred at Houston City Hall and multiple HISD schools. HISD has seen significant staff turnover since Miles' appointment, with more than 10,000 employees leaving as of June 2024. In August 2023, his administration sought various policy changes to increase Miles' authority, including an increase in the purchasing threshold requiring board approval from $100,000 to $2 million. In response to significant pushback, the approval threshold was reduced to $1 million and approved by the board of managers. In January 2025, HISD revealed that the administration made $870 million in purchases between August 2023 and December 2024 without seeking proper board approval. ==References==