Tuesday was Day One of the 2025-26 Houston ISD school year and as is customary, the superintendent Mike Miles called an afternoon press conference to let the media know how everything was going.

Although in this case, the numbers he presented had nothing to do with AC lapses or missed routes or bus breakdowns as in past years and everything to do with the preliminary school ratings the district has calculated — grades it expects to see replicated when the Texas Education Agency releases its official numbers this Friday.

No schools rated F and a reassurance to parents that "74 percent of our kids attend an A or B school," Miles said. This was not new news — HISD released the results on August 5 and will probably present them again at Thursday night's board meeting.

But clearly the opp

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