Teachers' union head says DODEA director should be replaced

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Teachers' union head says DODEA director should be replaced
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes online edition, Thursday, October 29, 2009

ARLINGTON, Va. – It’s time for DODEA Director Shirley Miles to be replaced, said Michael Priser, head of the union that represents teachers at Defense Department schools.

On Thursday, the union gave a list of complaints against Miles to Tommy Thomas, deputy undersecretary of defense for military community and family policy, a union news release said.

Among its grievances, the union takes issue with Miles’ proposal to increase middle school class sizes, and cut reading programs in Europe and the Pacific, as well as a math program in stateside schools, Priser said.

Miles has been director of Department of Defense Education Activity since June 2008.

“Not only do I believe that she is implementing policies that hurt children, but that we – and I personally – have tried to work with Dr. Miles in the past year and have not seen a change in the direction in which she’s going or in her style of leadership,” Priser said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65751

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1. Thirty plus

years ago after a messy divorce I amost took a position with the DODEA (or whatever it was called back then). It was a Peter Pan moment which my marriage counselor talked me out of. Guess I will always wonder how it would have been traveling.