Fort Worth ISD

Since 2008, the number of Texas students learning English as a second language who take longer than five years to become proficient is growing.

Amid local and national shortages, Fort Worth ISD bus drivers and attendants are getting a pay boost effect Saturday, Oct. 9.

Children under 12 aren’t eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine yet, but many are back in school in person. That and other factors has contributed to a sharp rise in case numbers among kids in the region and the state.

Fort Worth's school board voted to join La Joya ISD's lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott.

Cracking down on Critical Race Theory is on Gov. Greg Abbott's agenda for the Texas legislative special session that began this week. But Texas educators say they don't teach it, and experts say most people — including critics — don’t even know what is.

The district is putting up internet towers to provide more students with WiFi access. It also wants every student to take full-day summer classes to combat learning loss.

Fort Worth's longest-serving mayor, Betsy Price, isn't running for reelection, leaving room for change in city leadership for the first time in years. Two current City Council members are gunning for her job, and another is retiring, leaving three seats up for grabs -- and the races are more crowded than usual. This is a big difference from years past. In 2019, all the same City Council members got reelected.

Three Fort Worth elementary schools will finally begin in-person teaching next week, days after most of the district schools were able to return.

Parents across North Texas were left to deal with differing policies among local school districts on how to respond to the inclement weather Thursday.

Fort Worth ISD will delay in-person learning by two weeks. But many concerned community members sounded off during a Tuesday meeting that lasted longer than 10 hours and stretched into Wednesday morning.

Three of the Texas' largest school districts — Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth — were hit with technical problems as students began the school year online.

"We are currently experiencing technical issues with our phone lines and website," was a message in Dallas, Fort Worth and many districts nationwide that shared the same problem causing a first-day-of-school slowdown.