{"id":309655,"date":"2025-10-17T02:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309655\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:57:14","slug":"new-houston-isd-initiative-pairs-businesses-and-nonprofits-with-lower-rated-schools-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309655\/","title":{"rendered":"New Houston ISD initiative pairs businesses and nonprofits with lower-rated schools \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dominic Anthony Walsh\/Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

HISD Superintendent Mike Miles at a Tuesday, February 20, 2024 press conference.<\/p>\n

Houston ISD has released a list of community partners that are sponsoring the district’s lowest-rated campuses as part of state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles’ new “Houston Promise” initiative to improve struggling schools.<\/p>\n

The list of 43 organizations includes several professional sports teams like the Astros, Rockets and Texans, 13 groups with religious affiliations and Scott McClelland, former president of Texas grocery store chain H-E-B. HISD says some organizations have adopted more than one school (see the full list below).<\/p>\n

In September, Miles announced the program would pair 64 C-and D-rated HISD schools \u2013 as determined by the Texas Education Agency’s annual accountability ratings<\/a> \u2013 with businesses and nonprofits to help accomplish the district’s larger goal of all HISD schools earning A or B ratings by 2027.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Houston ISD\u2019s overall \u2018B\u2019 rating means district is \u2018extraordinarily close\u2019 to ending state takeover<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The initiative’s community partners are asked to provide teacher appreciation lunches or breakfast twice annually, support a student achievement celebration twice annually, host campus beautification projects and volunteer at the school, publicly celebrate the school and the Houston Promise initiative on social media and make small donations for campus principals to use at their discretion toward academic needs of students.<\/p>\n

HISD has not provided further clarification on the donation aspect of the initiative and does not have a final list of which partners have sponsored which schools. <\/p>\n

“No other district in the nation would even attempt [this goal], but we\u2019re the first ones that are in a position to do it,” Miles said in September. “The team and the staff and the kids believe we can do it.”<\/p>\n

For the first time since the state intervened and took control of HISD<\/a> in June 2023, because of continually poor academic performance by one high school, the district has no F-rated schools<\/a> this year. Miles, appointed by Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath along with a board of managers, now oversees 18 D-rated campuses, a sharp drop from more than 100 low-performing schools in 2022-2023 and a critical step toward exiting the state takeover.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of community partners: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Achieving Community Tasks Successfully (ACTS)<\/p>\n

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Alpha Kappa Omega Chapter<\/p>\n

Amigas and Friends<\/p>\n

Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation<\/p>\n

Camden Properties<\/p>\n

Corebridge<\/p>\n

David Weekley Family YMCA<\/p>\n

Dios Habla Hoy Church (Loving Houston)<\/p>\n

Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church<\/p>\n

Grace Presbyterian Church (Loving Houston)<\/p>\n

Harris County Courts at Law Judges<\/p>\n

Harris County Precinct 4<\/p>\n

Houston Loves Teachers<\/p>\n

Houston Astros<\/p>\n

Houston Dynamo FC<\/p>\n

Houston Rockets<\/p>\n

Houston Texans<\/p>\n

Independence Heights Ministers Alliance<\/p>\n

Jim and Beverly Postl<\/p>\n

Marty and Kathy Goossen<\/p>\n

Midtown Worship Center<\/p>\n

Monty & Ramirez LLP<\/p>\n

New Faith Church<\/p>\n

New Hope Church<\/p>\n

New Life Tabernacle Church<\/p>\n

NFL alumni group<\/p>\n

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Rho Beta Beta Chapter<\/p>\n

One Church at Bethel Family\/Free Community Church (Loving Houston)<\/p>\n

Philly Connect<\/p>\n

Pneuma Church (Loving Houston)<\/p>\n

Port Houston<\/p>\n

Possible Missions<\/p>\n

ProUnitas<\/p>\n

Revive Church (Loving Houston)<\/p>\n

Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics<\/p>\n

Sallyport Investments<\/p>\n

Scott and Soraya McClelland<\/p>\n

Sibme<\/p>\n

Tackling Crime in the Red Zone<\/p>\n

The L1 Foundation<\/p>\n

United Healthcare<\/p>\n

University of Houston Downtown<\/p>\n

Veterinary Support Services at Charles River Laboratories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Anthony Walsh\/Houston Public Media HISD Superintendent Mike Miles at a Tuesday, February 20, 2024 press conference. Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[64,407,6262,6263,77232,4345,156469,6267,156470,124903,425,50,358,8973,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-309655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-education-news","11":"tag-hisd","12":"tag-hisd-superintendent-mike-miles","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-businesses","15":"tag-houston-isd","16":"tag-houston-promise","17":"tag-houston-schools","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-texas-education-agency","22":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115387265726215291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}