Jacob Sanchez | Fort Worth Report
Enterprise ReporterJacob Sanchez is an enterprise reporter for the Fort Worth Report. His work has appeared in the Temple Daily Telegram, The Texas Tribune and the Texas Observer. He is a graduate of St. Edward’s University. Contact him at jacob.sanchez@fortworthreport.org or via Twitter.
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Both are educators who voiced their concerns about Texas taking control of FWISD during a forum Thursday evening. More than 150 people attended the meeting at the District Service Center to hear from Texas Education Agency officials about the next steps for the takeover of the city’s largest school district. -
A former middle school teacher who served as New Mexico’s secretary of education will oversee Fort Worth ISD as Texas takes control. -
Fort Worth school leaders met privately in Austin with state officials a week after Texas took control of the 67,500-student district. -
A takeover is an intervention by the Texas Education Agency commissioner who replaces an elected school board with a slate of appointed members. -
Texas launched its second-largest public school intervention after years of struggling academics. -
If a takeover occurs, the state will strip Fort Worth's nine locally elected trustees of their decision-making authority. Morath would appoint a board of managers. -
The $60M Legacy Elementary, which honors the Robb Elementary mass shooting victims, opens later in October. -
FWISD Superintendent Karen Molinar said she pored through Bluebonnet Learning lesson by lesson and determined it was the best choice to ignite further academic improvement. -
More than 30 people attended a town hall hosted by Leonard’s group, Families Organized and Resisting Takeover, or FORT, Thursday evening at Greater St. Stephen First Church. The group’s leaders detailed their plans for the next 60 to 90 days — or until Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath announces his decision for FWISD. -
Teachers and principals at seven persistently failing Fort Worth schools must reapply for their jobs for next school year if trustees approve a turnaround plan next week. -
The chief financial officer for Fort Worth schools won’t be crunching numbers for the city’s largest school district much longer. -
English teacher Nady Khalil stretched his arm across a poster-sized sheet of paper with seven stanzas written in red ink and asked six seventh graders to read as the Texas education commissioner observed.
