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New DISD superintendent
backed EN DA, opposed federal
marriage amendment
The sole finalist to become the new superin-
tendent of the Dallas Independent School District is
a supporter of LGBT equality, according to posi-
tions he took during his unsuccessful U.S. Senate
campaign in 2004.
Mike Miles, a former Army Ranger who currently
serves as superintendent of a school district in Col-
orado Springs, Colo., was named the sole finalist
for the DISD job on Monday April 2. He is ex-
pected to be formally hired April 26 after a 21 -day
waiting period, and would begin work in July.
Last month, Resource Center Dallas sent a let-
ter to DISD trustees urging them to keep LGBT is-
sues in mind as they selected a new
superintendent to replace Michael Hinojosa. In the
last few years, DISD has enacted a fully LGBT-in-
clusive anti-bullying policy and amended other
policies to include transgender protections.
Information about Miles' record on LGBT issues
as a superintendent wasn't immediately available.
But in 2004, Miles ran for U.S. Senate as a Demo-
crat in Colorado, losing in the primary to Ken
Salazar, who eventually won the seat. According to
excerpts taken from Miles' campaign website in
2004, he supported the Employment Non-Discrim-
ination Act — which would ban anti-gay job bias
— and opposed a federal constitutional amend-
ment defining marriage as between a man and a
woman.
According to the excerpts, Miles served on a
Human Relations Commission in Colorado Springs
in the mid-1990s, when he was part of an effort to
add sexual orientation to the city's nondiscrimina-
tion ordinance.
"Everyone should enjoy equal and fair treatment
in the workplace," Miles wrote on his campaign
website, indicating his support for ENDA. "A per-
son's employment should be based on qualifica-
tions and ability to do the job. A person's sexual
orientation should not be a hiring consideration nor
should it bear any weight in determinations of job
performance."
On the issue of marriage, Miles wrote: "Equal
rights means equal rights for everyone — that in-
cludes people who are gay or lesbian. Thus, I op-
pose the Federal Marriage Amendment."
Look for an interview with Miles in an upcoming
edition of Dallas Voice.
— John Wright
Flour Bluff teen commits suicide;
family blames school district for
not addressing bullying
A year after the Flour Bluff Independent School
District received national attention for refusing to
allow students to form a Gay Straight Alliance, the
district is accused of not handling bullying that led
to a former student's suicide on Sunday April 1.
Ted Molina, 16, faced bullying since fifth grade
from a group of boys who used racial epithets and
threatened to fight him. Molinafe mother is Asian.
The family blames the school district for not han-
dling the bullying properly his aunt told the Corpus
Christi Caller-Times.
Molina played football in middle school, but quit
his freshman year hoping the taunting would stop.
When it continued, he withdrew from Flour Bluff
High School on March 5. While he seemed to im-
prove, he posted several grim photos of himself on
Facebook hours before he killed himself in his bed-
room. He did not leave a note.
From the Caller-Times:
Sophomore Ashley Stover, 16, said Ted was a
good student who smiled, did his school work, got
to class on time and had few absences.
Ted, whom she knew since at least middle
school, never showed signs of wanting to commit
suidde.
"He was just smiling and happy," Ashley said.
In the hours before he killed himself, Ted posted
three, sullen pictures of himself on Facebook that
family and friends say look nothing like the happy-
go-lucky boy they knew who always liked to make
people laugh.
"I don't think he was trying to hurt anyone else
or cause anyone else pain," his friend Kyle Stewart
said. "He just wanted his pain to end."
— Anna Waugh
04.06.12
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