Dallas loses superintendent

The Dallas school district has lost its superintendent, just like Fort Worth ISD did more than a year ago.

Some advice for our friends to the east: Don’t waste time. Make it your top priority to find your district’s new leader. Work on it constantly.

Don’t let your district drift without someone at the top who has a long-term commitment and a long-term plan for success. Your district’s 160,000 students deserve no less.

You’ll probably hire a consultant to help with the superintendent search — most school districts do. Light a fire under that consultant and allow no rest until the job is done.

If you turn around a year from now and don’t have a new superintendent, your consultant has failed you and you have failed your students.

DISD Superintendent Mike Miles will leave after Thursday’s school board meeting. He was hired three years ago and was paid $300,000 a year.

Fort Worth ISD has operated with an interim superintendent since Walter Dansby resigned June 2 last year. He was paid almost $339,000 a year to run a district a little more than half the size of Dallas.

This story was originally published June 23, 2015 at 5:46 PM with the headline "Dallas loses superintendent."