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For Houston superintendent, there’s nothing piecemeal about school turnarounds

Appointed to lead Texas’ largest district during a state takeover last year, Mike Miles is embracing a model of wholescale systemic change.

Turning around a school district is no small feat — especially when that district is the largest in Texas and eighth largest in the U.S. But Houston Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles doesn’t shy away from bold, wholesale change.

The former U.S. Army Ranger and diplomat to Poland and Russia has spent three decades as an educator. In that time, he has led the Harrison School District in Colorado and the Dallas Independent School District, in addition to founding Third Future Schools, a nonprofit charter school operator he resigned from to take the job in Houston.

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