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All three school board candidates endorsed by a young Dallas political action committee won seats on Saturday.

New Dallas Superintendent Mike Miles gave his first presentation to the school board Thursday. He's got some ambitious goals, and he hopes to achieve them by the end of the decade. 

Miles said he wants 90 percent of DISD students to graduate by the year 2020 and wants 60 percent to score at least a 21 on the ACT college entrance exams.  He said only some 13 percent achieve that score now. 

"Indeed, this is the most important work of our time," Miles said. " We want to have the highest college and career ready percentage of graduates of any large urban district in the nation by the year 2020." 

For the first time, the Dallas School District’s Talented and Gifted Magnet High School is the best high school in the country, according to today’s U.S. News and World Report. Townview’s Science and Engineering magnet is number three.