Mike Miles

New Style of Superintendent?

Richard Whitmire | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Mike Miles, College Board, Dallas, Gaston Caperton, Dallas Schools, Teacher Salary, Education Reform, Education News
Richard Whitmire

The Harrison reforms started with superintendent Mike Miles asking a question: If 80 percent of my budget is devoted to salaries, shouldn't salaries be linked to performance? Sounds logical, but in the school world, that's radical thinking.

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Colorado Senate Race a Chance to Start Reversing Corporate Stranglehold on Congress

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Romanoff, Restore Democracy, Colorado U.S. Senate Race, Window of Opportunity, Campaign Spending, Plutocracy, Corporate Personhood, Michael Bennet, Rep. Pat Schroeder, Mike Miles, Ken Salazar, Reverse Corporate Stranglehold on Congress, Government-of-the-Highest-Bidder, Denver News
Michele Swenson

The current Colorado U.S. senate race offers a rare opportunity for the electorate to exercise leverage against the corporate-controlled state.

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Why Michael Bennet Will Win the Colorado Senate Race

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Miles, Primary, Money, Romanoff, Colorado, Ken Salazar, Campaign, Candidates, Bennet, Denver, Democrats, Barack Obama, Assembly, David Sirota, Mark Udall, Caucus, Betsy Markey, PAC Money, Clean Campaigns Colorado, Brandon Schaffer, Colorado Democratic Party, Jared Polis, Colorado Pols, PPP Poll, Diana DeGette, Health Care, John Flerlage, Colorado Congressional Delegation, Mike Coffman, Wellington Webb, Ed Perlmutter, John Salazar, Fundraising, Bill Ritter, John Hickenlooper, Square State, Contributions, Supreme Court, Obama, Senate, Denver News
Nancy Cronk

Andrew Romanoff will not win; newly appointed US Senator Michael Bennet will win his first race. Here's why.

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Michael Bennet Caucus Expectations Mitigated By DSCC

The Hill | Aaron Blake | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Salazar, Colorado Caucuses, Mike Miles, Andrew Romanoff, Michael Bennet, Colorado Senate Race, Jane Norton, Denver News

National Democrats want you to know that, even if Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) loses in Colorado's precinct caucucses today, everything is going to b...

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Tikkun Olam -- Choosing Between Two Candidates

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United States Senate, Michael Bennet, Andrew Romanoff, Colorado Senate, Jewish, Tikkun Olam, Mike Miles, Hillary Clinton, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Denver News
Nancy Cronk

Ken Salazar, like Mike Miles, believed in "tikkun olam" (Hebrew for "saving the world"), but he also had great marketing. Lesson learned! But what about Bennet and Romanoff?

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Is It a Problem When the Party Decides?

Seth Masket | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Primaries, Andrew Romanoff, Michael Bennet, Barack Obama, Mark Udall, Mike Miles, Colorado Politics, Mark Benner, Douglas Wilder, Paterson Obama, David Paterson, Pete Coors, Bob Schaffer, Ken Salazar, Denver News
Seth Masket

Think about recent examples of state or national party leaders trying to pick nominees before primary voters had a chance to weigh in. Do voters ever push back?

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Wake-Up Call: And they're off!

Westword | Westword | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Romanoff, Jane Norton, Ken Buck, Ken Salazar, Michael Bennet, Mike Miles, Patricia Calhoun, Ryan Frazier, Home News

The 2010 election is still more than thirteen months away, but the race for the U.S. Senate season occupied (for the past eight months) by M...

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