Austin American Statesman: Ex-U Texas regent to chair national panel on higher education
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Charles Miller led a number of education commissions in Texas, ultimately leaving his fingerprints on an accountability system that uses standardized test scores to judge public schools.
Later, as chairman of the University of Texas System’s governing board, he oversaw the creation of a charter school in East Austin, the hiring of a chancellor and the imposition of stricter controls on the system’s multibillion-dollar investment arm.
Now the retired money manager from Houston has been named by U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to lead a national commission on higher education. Its recommendations are due Aug. 1.
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