Houston Chronicle

Some would like nothing more than to see Mike Miles go.

At last week's meeting of Houston ISD's new board of managers, the public pushback against the recently named superintendent overseeing the takeover by the Texas Education Agency was fierce. We criticized the board for attempting to run its first meeting with minimal presentation and without answering questions, though it's likely board members wouldn't have heard much anyway because of the shouting from some attendees during that part of the meeting. It was not an exercise in good governance or good listening...