Here is what I have, the only CSS is styling for my tags, so there is no relevant CSS effecting this.
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top"><span style="font-size:20px; color:#ed8f49">Fall Classes with</span><img src="REDACTED.png" height="90" width="482"></td>
</tr>
When I have only the TD things work fine, but as soon as I put that text in a span or try to make it h1 it aligns to the bottom, even if I add alignment attributes to the span as well.
You need
align="top"orstyle="vertical-align:topon your image 🙂