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HISD spent $1.3 million on consultants while the bond failed — money meant for kids, not PR firms like Bryson Gillette.
Speak out Thursday about the wickedness of wasting public ed dollars and the lies Miles keeps spinning.
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HISD spent $1.3 million on public affairs consulting
Houston ISD does not list Bryson Gillette among its consulting services expenses.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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“these (SB 1882 ) partnerships—including schools run by the nonprofit that Miles formerly led—fall under a law for in-district charter schools that contains far fewer financial and academic guardrails than apply to other charters or public schools.

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Houston's Top Magnet High Schools Could Become Private Partnership Charter Schools, Raising Equity Concerns
Texas' largest school district may even convert its renowned performing arts institution under a program that benefitted the state-appointed superintendent in his previous career.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Election Day is today.
Audrey, Maria, and Michael will stand up to Mike Miles and fight for our kids.
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Vote for our kids today!
Sterling’s band shows what true success looks like, students growing through music, teamwork, and joy. The kind of learning missing from Mike Miles’s dystopian equation.

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HISD’s Sterling High School’s marching band makes history with performance
Sterling High School’s marching band qualified this year to compete in UIL Area — the equivalent of the "playoffs" — for the first time in the school’s 60-year history.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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No Kings in Our Schools: What Texas Teaches the Nation About Right-Wing Power and Public Education
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No Kings in Our Schools: What Texas Teaches the Nation About Right Wing Power and Public Education
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has forcibly taken over Fort Worth ISD. In October 2025, the Texas Education Agency officially booted Fort Worth’s democratically elected school board and replaced it wit…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Mike Miles is trying to carve up HISD, starting with 1882 charter deals at “boutique” schools like HSPVA and Energy. No one asked for this. New Orleans 2.0.
Here’s what they’re not telling you. 📷

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HISD Selling Off Schools | Ft Worth ISD takeover |Take Action
Promoting community-led school reform to strengthen our public school system
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October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Not one, not two, but thousands of HISD teachers have lost their jobs under Miles's authoritarian "leadership" because they have dared to buck his requirement to teach the district-created, NES curriculum "with fidelity." How, you ask? Well, they've had the audacity to read real books, sing, draw 🧵
Knowing the stakes, Rose and her classmates at their west-side elementary practiced the drill iust as their teacher instructed. The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their chapter books at all times as they took turns reading aloud with their teacher. At any moment, they knew, their teacher might get an urgent text that district officials were on campus. Rose's mother says a staffer apparently sent alerts using a secret code of emojis to signal which classrooms the officials were coming for. Rose always placed her book with the open side down so as not to lose her page. She was smitten by the gallant, non-conforming little mouse who takes on the cunning dungeon rats in Kate DiCamillo's book "The Tale of Despereaux." The 8-year-old never thought she'd be part of a daring plot in her own classroom. "I just wanted to read the book,' Rose, now 9, told me in a recent interview. Books - actual books, with dust jackets spines, whimsical illustrations. and characters and cliffhangers - are ncreasingly unwelcome in the land of worksheets and slide shows. Teachers say that, with few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early qrades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education Svstem are minced into dry text that teachers reac from manuals. The few approved books focus on phonics. f district evaluators had walked into the classroom of Rose and Max last year and found every desk spread with paperbacks, the teacher could have faced reprimand, lost points in her spot review and, if she'd repeated the indiscretion, lost her iob
October 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This tragic but excellent article needs to be read by everyone throughout the country. The Republicans want to kill public ed. They are using state takeovers and charter school owning charlatans like Mike Miles (and his abusive NES) to do it. See at what they are stealing from our (soon your) kids!🧵
October 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Houston ISD to control coverage by hiring its own news crew. Another $2M instead of funding teachers or fixing AC.

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October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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🚨 The draft District Improvement Plan is out.
One “key initiative”? Spending an additional $2 million on HISD Now to fight so-called “misinformation” from the press.

Our schools deserve resources for students, not PR spin. 📚✊🏽

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HISD lays out 8 priorities for 2025-26 school year. Here's what to know.
Houston ISD laid out eight priorities for the 2025-26 school year in its second budget...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Call out Mike Miles’ harmful policies & data manipulation—fight for every child’s right to learn.
HISD Board of Managers
Thu Oct 9 · 5 PM
4400 W 18th St or Zoom.
Sign-up to speak: Mon 5 PM–Wed noon. Details on our site.
October 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"This is the real extremism: the dismantling of public education while accusing those who defend it of being radicals."

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Mike Miles calls HISD parents like me 'extreme'
At a Houston City Council meeting, the state-appointed superintendent of Houston ISD dismissed skeptics as “disgruntled” and talked of “conspiracy theories.”
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September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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OfftheKuff is interviewing HISD trustee candidates this week. Today: Felicity Pereyra (D1). CVPE backs Pereyra, Guidry (D9), Benzon (D5), MICHAEL McDonough (D6), Nath (D7). End the takeover, restore real learning. www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=120420
Interview with Felicity Pereyra | Off the Kuff
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September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Miles just rolled out his fifth new spot form in two months. Now worth 18 points instead of 15 — and retroactive. Constant rule-changes don’t just punish teachers, they destabilize classrooms and harm kids.
September 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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The Harris County Democratic Party issued its first-ever endorsements of candidates running in the Houston ISD trustee elections, citing the “high stakes facing Houston’s schools in the wake of the state takeover.”

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Harris County Democrats issue first endorsements in HISD trustee elections
The Harris County Democratic Party issued its first-ever endorsement of candidates running in HISD trustee elections, citing the "high stakes facing Houston’s schools."
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September 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Only 5 people have submitted feedback on Miles’ bonus .

Got something to say? Scroll to tge bottom and click on the red button m, add your contribution.

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Tell us: How do you feel about HISD? Does Mike Miles deserve a bonus?
Houston ISD's controversial superintendent is eligible for an annual bonus of up to $231K. How would you rate him?
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September 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Speak up Wed at 2 PM: Miles will brag to City Council Committee about test score“gains.” These ratings are manufactured—built on demoting and withdrawing students, shuffling them into classes that inflate ratings, not learning. Scores ≠ learning.

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September 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This Nov election is about more than a single race; it’s about ending the catastrophic takeover where kids can’t read books even in kinder and Miles is bleeding our district dry.

To find out if you live in one of the three contested districts (D5, D6 or D7), click www.hctax.net/Voter/Search...
September 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The State Board of Ed voted along partisan lines 8-7, to make “social studies,” mostly TX and American exceptionalism with TX history replacing world history six grades deep. World history is shunted to the back burner. New 8th-grade test seals the deal.
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In reversal, Texas SBOE backs plan to deemphasize world history, cultures
The plan, favored by conservative activists, greatly reduces the amount of time spent on world history and boosts that spent on Texas history.
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September 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Watch the HISD Board of Managers meeting live: www.youtube.com/live/dC88l5T...
Save the date for the next board meeting on October 9, 2025.
09-11-2025 School Board Meeting
YouTube video by Houston ISD
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September 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Speak in person or on Zoom at the HISD Board of Managers meeting this Thursday at 5 pm (4400 W 18th St). Tell Miles and the board no to AI curriculum and firing teachers. Sign up to speak today (9/8) after 5 pm through Wed (9/10) at noon. Info: houston.org/events
September 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The Commission wants to hear from you. The first listening session is Wed, Sept 10th.

The commission is co-chaired by Sen. Molly Cook, Rep. Lauren Simmons, and Rev. Colin Bossen, with national experts like Domingo Morel, author of Takeover. No RSVP needed. Your voice matters.
September 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Durham PTA accuses HISD of retaliating against teachers who spoke at the Aug 25 board meeting: “Rather than providing the support promised, the district removed two of the best teachers… and replaced them with subs & iPads.”

www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...
Teachers reassigned to ‘home duty’ at Durham Elementary, parents demand answers
Parents at Durham Elementary School are voicing frustration and confusion after several teachers were abruptly reassigned to “home duty” with no clear explanation from Houston ISD.
www.click2houston.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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HB 8 is bait & switch: it adds beginning & midyear tests plus a new STAAR 3.0 at year’s end—more testing, more TEA control, same high-stakes harm.
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/26/t...
House Democrats’ frustration with STAAR bill highlights divide over how new test should look
Democrats say recent changes to the bill give too much power to the TEA and fall short of meaningfully easing the pressures of standardized testing.
www.texastribune.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM