Miguel Solis

Seize the Moment, Dallas Schools, and Decide for Good What Trustees Can and Cannot Do

Big teachable moment right now in the Dallas school system -- huge! -- and the school board and superintendent should rush to take advantage of it. I'm talking about the deal I reported here yesterday in which the superintendent called school district cops to physically evict a school board member ... More >>

DISD OKs Merit Pay, but a Debate on Contracts Hints at a Long Road for Reform

Last night the Dallas school board passed into law a merit pay system for teachers in the biggest victory yet for school reformers and for Superintendent Mike Miles. We probably are about to find ourselves under the national microscope as media and academics from everywhere come here to hover. The ... More >>

Teachers Union Set to Do a U-Turn and Endorse DISD Trustee Miguel Solis

Alliance-AFT, a Dallas teachers union that was making robo-calls a year ago to get Dallas school Superintendent Mike Miles fired, is about to endorse one of his strongest supporters for re-election to the school board. The union will inform members Friday that it has endorsed Miguel Solis for the P ... More >>

Not All DISD Reformers Are Elitist, Public Ed-hating Zombies

Too Many Wrinkled Guys in Mayor's School Takeover Campaign

Monday I said Mike Rawlings was about to announce a pause -- a tapping of the brakes -- in his public school takeover campaign. I was a little off. Instead it turns out he has been meeting with three really old guys. I guess that could have the same effect. What? That's not a slur. I've got nothing ... More >>

DISD District 8 Election Underscores Teachers Union Fecklessness

Solis' Defeat of Lara for Dallas School Board Is Another Crack in the Status Quo

One big lesson to draw from Tuesday's special election to fill an empty school board seat: The public school employees unions in Dallas are weak tea, indeed, when it comes to any kind of a shootout at the polls. Take away a couple of pissed-off rich supporters with axes to grind, and teachers union ... More >>

DISD District 8 School Board Election: Who Let the Big Dogs Out? (UPDATED)

UPDATE, 11:45 A.M.: Manuel G. Berrelez, one of Miguel Solis' lawyers, just called to tell me that Kristi Lara has withdrawn her lawsuit. The original post follows: Yesterday afternoon we told you the big lawsuit over residency requirements for a Dallas school board candidate got kicked up to a high ... More >>

DISD District 8 Residency Lawsuit Kaput Until After Election

A lawsuit against the Dallas school district and a candidate for election to the school board brought by his election opponent Kristi Lara was stopped by court order this afternoon until after the November 5 election, according to a lawyer for Lara's opponent. Jeronimo Valdez, lawyer for DISD Distr ... More >>

Zero Hour for Mike Miles in DISD's District 8

The special election for the school board will decide his fate. For now.

Teach For America's Miguel Solis Talks to D.C. Crowd About Experience at T.C. Marsh

What you see above is a video presently making the rounds amongst those of us who live in the T.C. Marsh-W.T. White feeder pattern: Marsh eighth-grade U.S. history teacher Miguel Solis speaking a few days ago at Teach for America's 20th Anniversary Summit in Washington, D.C. And when I say speaking, ... More >>