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The fourth graders at the Leadership Academy Network at Como Elementary needed to place the decimal 0.7 on a number line using the letter Z. With their index fingers, students circled each point representing a whole number and drew arcs on each of the four answer choices displayed on their iPads.

Facing a $40 million budget shortfall, decreasing enrollment and low student performance, Fort Worth ISD declared last week its intention to close a second school beginning in the 2024-25 school year.

It began as an experiment more than four years ago in a handful of struggling Dallas schools. Now, the ACE program —for Accelerating Campus Excellence —…