The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations — a local Muslim advocacy group — is calling on Houston ISD to add a school holiday back for Eid al-Fitr during the 2025-2026 school year.

A Muslim advocacy group is urging the Houston ISD board to recognize the Eid-al-Fitr holiday—one week after the state-appointed board voted to take the Muslim holiday off the 2025-26 calendar. The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on HISD to reinstate Eid al-Fitr as a holiday,

Houston ISD's 2025-26 calendar does not include a day off for Eid al-Fitr, one of two major holidays for Muslims. The district had implemented a school holiday for Eid in 2023.

HISD’s final proposed draft of the 2025-26 school calendar gives students a day off for Good Friday and Yom Kippur but not the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.