Fort Worth ISD

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.

Camille Rodriguez and Amanda Inay have deep love — and a mountain of pride — for Fort Worth’s Northside community.

Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be strengthened starting in the 2025-26 school year through the addition of a supplemental program.

Some of Fort Worth ISD’s youngest students could grow up to be Olympians.

During a Fort Worth ISD school board meeting March 25, Superintendent Karen Molinar acknowledged that district staff failed to validate the students’ experiences when it mattered most.

The proposed redesign comes as Fort Worth ISD attempts to turn itself around and home in on improving literacy. The restructuring is part of the district’s larger effort to put its money where its mouth is and infuse literacy into its nearly $1 billion budget.

The executive director of the United Educators Association told trustees during a special school board meeting March 11 that he feels something for the district he hasn’t in a long time: