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Reynolds, a leader of the nonprofit R4 Foundation, stood at the lectern with a message for Fort Worth ISD trustees: Make the difficult decision. For the sake of the children, she said.

Fort Worth ISD mother Maryela Contreras and her husband have seriously contemplated where they want their three children to attend school.

The Texas education commissioner issued a letter to FWISD leaders detailing next steps after a now-closed school failed for five years.

The Texas education commissioner is now officially weighing his options for Fort Worth ISD after a now-closed school triggered the state’s school intervention law.

Incumbents Roxanne Martinez, Michael Ryan and Camille Rodriguez were each on their way to an additional four-year term on the nine-member school board.

Simmons is a literacy specialist. Not for a school district. Instead, he works for the city of Fort Worth assisting with the municipal government’s after-school and summer reading programs. City officials see the programs, plus new dyslexia screenings, as their way of tackling Fort Worth’s literacy crisis head on.

Fort Worth ISD believes it isn’t at risk of a state takeover, district officials told the Fort Worth Report after the April 24 release of new Texas Education Agency ratings.

With the Texas Education Agency’s release of 2023 A-F grades, most area districts fell one grade. Fort Worth and DeSoto dropped two, from a B to a D.

Fourth-grade teacher Danyelle Liggins noticed a pattern as she scrubbed through previous Fort Worth ISD school board meeting footage.

He and 20 colleagues took pride in keeping students safe — and keeping costs low. But over the years, Davidson told trustees during a March 25 board meeting, things changed. Morale dipped. Staffing thinned. Buses weren’t arriving on time.

Fort Worth’s Northside could get a brand new school by 2029, but only if two campuses close and another is torn down.

The Fort Worth ISD school board recently flexed its superintendent accountability power.