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Colleen DeGuzman
Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles accompanied Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath as he toured Kinder High School of the Performing and Visual Arts on Wednesday, May 14.
Houston ISD has less than two months to try and fill more than 350 teacher vacancies across the district.
According to the district’s calendar, classes begin Aug. 12, and the district has three job fairs between now and then where it will attempt to fill the 358 current teacher vacancies listed for the 2025-26 school year. The vacancies include teaching roles in all grade levels and multiple subjects, including English, Spanish, math, chemistry and history.
Over the past several weeks, the district has been holding “hiring events” at the Delmar Fieldhouse to try and fill the roles. According to the district, more than 700 people attended the hiring event on June 14. Of those 700, the district said it extended more than 100 job offers, but did not clarify what positions they were for or what qualifications the candidates had.
The remaining hiring events are scheduled to take place June 28, July 12 and July 26 at the Delmar Fieldhouse.
Speaking on HISD Now, the district’s YouTube channel, Houston ISD Deputy Chief of Human Resources Arnoldo Gutierrez said the main focus of the hiring events is for teachers, but other positions also are a priority.
“Our focus at first was hiring high-quality teachers, but now we’re looking at other positions: nurses, counselors, pre-K teachers, bilingual teachers, special education teachers, teacher assistants, learning coaches [and] teacher apprentices,” Gutierrez said. “Now we’ve moved into the phase — because it’s closer to the beginning of the school year, moving through the summer — we’re looking for other positions as well.”
Last August, ahead of the 2024-25 school year, state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles said the district was short 748 teachers. From August 2023 to August 2024, approximately 1,400 teachers left the district.
Earlier this month, the state-appointed school board approved a 5-year contract extension for Miles that includes a $82,000 annual raise for the superintendent. It happened shortly after Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath replaced four of the nine members on the board and announced the state’s intervention, which began in 2023, would last until at least 2027.
The raise for Miles drew criticism from the Houston Federation of Teachers, a union representing thousands of teachers in HISD. Miles’ two-year tenure, while coinciding with improved scores on standardized tests, also has been marked by continued enrollment declines, significant staffing shakeups, community protests and the failure of a $4.4 billion bond proposal that could be considered a referendum on Miles’ leadership and the state’s intervention.
The district also approved a new, locally created evaluation system for teachers. It is expected to be used as part of a pay-for-performance model set to take effect in the 2026-27 school year.
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