HOUSTON - A lawsuit has been filed against Houston ISD by teachers with the district who say they were illegally denied state-funded retention pay raises .

Houston ISD sued over pay raises

What we know:

The suit was filed Wednesday by the Houston Federation of Teachers (HFT) against the Houston ISD Board of Managers and state-appointed superintendent Mike Miles.

The litigants say Miles and the board have mismanaged state funds by approving a new compensation plan for the 2025-26 school year that does not include the teacher retention allotment raises promised in House Bill 2, the multi-billion-dollar public school funding package signed into law this Texas session.

According to the suit, Houston ISD teachers are owed $2,500 raises for classroom teachers with three to five years of

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