{"id":383273,"date":"2026-07-23T02:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383273\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:16:12","slug":"hisd-teachers-wont-know-their-salaries-when-they-return-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383273\/","title":{"rendered":"HISD teachers won\u2019t know their salaries when they return to work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston ISD\u2019s 10,000 teachers will return<\/a> to their classrooms next Thursday. They won\u2019t learn their salaries until the next day.<\/p>\n

The notification process is part of a new performance-based compensation system that district leaders have said would boost salaries for teachers who received high evaluation scores during the 2025-26 school year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate your patience and understanding,\u201d the district said in a letter to teachers this week, explaining that while they would be expected to report to work on July 30th, they wouldn\u2019t learn their salaries until July 31st. \u201cThank you for everything you do to support Houston ISD students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Houston ISD did not respond to questions from the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n

HISD Superintendent Mike Miles, who was appointed by the state in June 2023<\/a>, has implemented sweeping changes in the state\u2019s largest school district, including closing some schools<\/a>, introducing new curriculum<\/a> and implementing a\u00a0new teacher evaluation system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Houston Federation of Teachers has opposed<\/a> the new compensation system, arguing it\u2019s divisive and fails to improve\u00a0student achievement. Informing teachers of their salaries after they report back to work shows \u201cthe incompetence and lack of empathy for the employee by the employer,\u201d said Jackie Anderson, president of the union, in a statement.<\/p>\n

Under the new system,\u00a0HISD teachers could earn<\/a> between $70,000 and $101,000 based on their performance rating, as well as what and where they teach. Teacher salary increases are capped at $6,000.<\/p>\n

Claire Partain contributed to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston ISD\u2019s 10,000 teachers will return to their classrooms next Thursday. They won\u2019t learn their salaries until the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-383273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}