Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles use of school police to remove an elected Trustee from a public middle school violates the Texas Education Code

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles use of school police to remove an elected Trustee from a public middle school violates the Texas Education Code

Texas Education Code

Section 11.151(c)

"All rights and titles to the school property of the district, whether real or personal, shall be vested in the trustees and their successors in office..."

Under the Texas Education Code, elected Trustees are the owners of all school property, not Superintendent Mike Miles.

The Superintendent is an employee of the Board of Trustees and has no superior right to remove any Trustee from any public school property.

It does not matter what the Superintendent was doing in the facility.

An elected Trustee has a right to access all school property and cannot be removed from the school property by Superintendent Miles, the school police or any school employee if the facility is being used for any school meeting or activity.

The police removal of a Trustee violates the property ownership rights of Trustees clearly stated in the Texas Education Code (Section 11.151(c) and Board Policy BAA (LEGAL).

This is a very serious abuse of the Superintendent's authority as an employee of the democratically elected Board of Trustees and provides "good cause" for termination.

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Dallas Independent School District

Superintendent's Employment Contract

V. Termination of Employment Contract: The Board may dismiss the Superintendent for good cause as that term is applied to term contract employees under Texas Law...Examples of "good cause" include, but are not limited to: c. Insubordination... t. failure to take steps to maintain an effective working relationship, or maintain good rapport with parents, the community, staff, or the Board.

W. Any other reason constituting "good cause" under Texas law as it applies to term contract employees, as determined by the Board.

Dallas ISD

Board Policy

BAA(LEGAL)

"District Property - The Board may acquire and hold real and personal property in the name of the district. All rights and titles to the school property of the District, whether real or personal, shall be vested in the trustees and their successors in office. education Code 11.151(a),(c) [See CHG]"

V. Termination of Employment Contract: The Board may dismiss the Superintendent for good cause as that term is applied to term contract employees under Texas Law...Examples of "good cause" include, but are not limited to: c. Insubordination... t. failure to take steps to maintain and effective working relationship, or maintain good rapport with parents, the community, staff, or the Board

http://www.dallasisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001475/Centricity/Domain/1/MMiles_Contract.pdf

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles use of school police to remove an elected Trustee from a public middle school violates the Texas Education Code

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