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Article: Texas trailblazer: this school chief may not have parted the Red Sea, but he's helped make education miracles happen.(Administrator profile: Mike Moses, Dallas independent school district)(Biography)
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- District Administration
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- September 1, 2003
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You might say that Mike Moses is a leader of Biblical proportions. He runs a really big school district--12th largest in the U.S.--oversees a super-sized $1.2 billion budget and makes $325,000 a year, by many accounts more than any other superintendent.
Since he was anointed-ahem, appointed--head of the Dallas Independent School District in January 2000, Moses hasn't disappointed. He's led the beleaguered urban district to a promised land of financial stability, public confidence and student achievement. To the people of Dallas, where he is the sixth superintendent in a tumultuous five years, this tried-and-true Texan and former state education commissioner is ...