From DallasISD.org
"Official start date is July 1
The
Dallas ISD Board of Trustees voted to name Mike Miles as the district’s
new Superintendent of Schools. The board approved hiring
Miles with an 8-1 vote during tonight’s called board meeting.
Miles’ contract, approved by trustees, will provide him a salary of $300,000 a year for three years. This move puts Miles at the
helm of the nation’s 14th largest school district.
“This
obviously is an exciting time for me,” said Miles. “I’m looking forward
to working with the dedicated people here in Dallas
ISD, the staff, parents and the community. I know great things are
ahead for us as we move forward for the good of our students.”
Miles’
first official day on the job will be July 1, 2012. However, the board
voted to enter into an additional Administrative
Services Agreement with Miles that would allow him to get to work
immediately. That agreement would be for a period of no more than15 days
between now and his official start date. Under the agreement, Miles
will receive a day rate of $1,000.
Known as an innovator and reformer, Miles served as Superintendent for the Harrison School District Two in Colorado Springs for
nearly six years. Under his leadership, the district experienced increased graduation rates and improved student achievement.
Miles
started his career in education in 1995 as a high school teacher in his
alma mater school district—Fountain-Fort Carson School
District 8. He continued to grow professionally and held other
positions such as middle school principal, coordinator of administration
services and from 2003 to 2006 served as assistant superintendent for
Curriculum and Instruction, in the same school district.
Miles is a former U.S. Army Ranger and West Point graduate who entered the ranks of the officer corps at Ft. Lewis, Washington,
where he served in the Army's elite Ranger Battalion and commanded an Infantry Rifle Company.
After
the Army, Miles studied Slavic languages and literature at the
University of California at Berkeley and the University of
Leningrad in Russia. Miles then pursued advanced study of Soviet
affairs and public policy at Columbia University and earned a master’s
degree in 1989. The same year, he joined the U.S. Department of State
as a policy analyst on the Soviet desk, and then
from 1990 to 1995 as diplomat in Moscow and Warsaw at the end of the
Cold War.
Miles is married to Karen Miles, and they have three children."
