Fort Worth ISD

Now that Fort Worth ISD has voted to close 18 campuses, what's next for the buildings? The head of a preservation society explains how seeking landmark status could help.

The school board heard plans May 20 outlining the district’s $22 million teacher compensation package for the 2025-26 academic year, including a self-directed bump in starting teacher pay and likely mandated raises from the Texas Legislature.

Students urged FWISD to keep their schools open. Hours later, trustees voted unanimously to close 14 more campuses by 2029.

Newly elected and reelected school board trustees took their oaths last week across Tarrant County, finalizing outcomes from May elections that once again saw low voter turnout.

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.