No more 'F' schools in Houston: Mike Miles takes a victory lap
- Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 7
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 7
In 2023, 45 percent of Houston students attended a school with a "D" or "F" rating, based on scores on state tests. (The Texas Education Agency does the ratings.) Two years later, there are no "F" schools and only 7 percent are at a "D" school. Seventy-four percent of students are at an "A" or "B" rated campus, reports April Towery in the Houston Press. That's up from 35 percent in 2023.
Superintendent Mike Miles, appointed by the state to improve achievement, announced the new rankings Tuesday. He talked to Kevin Mahnken about the need "to go bold and go big."
Miles' reforms, which he calls the New Education System, seem to be paying off. “We are providing a proof point that it can be done, and that Black and brown kids challenged by poverty and language barriers can rise to high expectations," he told Mahnken. "Don’t sell them short. Don’t say it’ll take eight years or five years to do it.”
Miles thinks raising achievement will reduce declining enrollment. "Yeah, I think we can compete with the charters."
Get real. This isn’t teaching. Have you even spoken to a teacher? Admin a re HISD puppets who are ruining and micromanaging every aspect of education. They won’t even let you put cute name tags on lockers or decorate for holidays. It’s militant and sad. If he did so well then he can GO
In Texas, there are liars, there are damx liars and then there are statisticians.
These are great results if the grading standards now are the same as they were "before". Miles has always impressed me.
Doesn't say what ages or how many students or demographic situation.
Doesn't say what reforms were carried out.
Doesn't say who did the rating and what was the basis.