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Houston Chronicle · The Editorial Board · 2026-10-21 10:00 UTC

The Houston Chronicle editorial board warns that ending the state takeover of HISD, as Gina Hinojosa has promised, shouldn't end efforts to improve our schools.

In 2023, when the Texas Education Agency officially took over Houston ISD after years of legal back and forth, Dallas teachers and community members drove down to Houston with a message: Beware Mike Miles.

From 2012 to 2015, Miles had served as superintendent of Dallas ISD, and the hard feelings still lingered. Now, after the state had appointed Miles as HISD’s superintendent, the Dallasites stood alongside chanting Houstonians, protesting outside the first meeting of the newly installed board of managers..

“I teach in Dallas,” read one sign. “Mike Miles damaged us so badly I drove four hours to come warn you.”

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