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Read Fort Worth is trying to go bigger. The organization’s work is now part of a regional collaboration between Tarrant County school districts called the Rev Partnership.
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When the bell rings at Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD’s L.D. Bell High School, the volleyball team heads to the locker room, changes into their athletic clothes and walks past the gymnasium to the double doors leading outside the school.
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Fort Worth ISD is expected to take its first step toward closing schools as enrollment declines.
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School officials in San Antonio announced earlier this week that they are looking at closing about 20% of their campuses while Plano school officials are starting those discussions.
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The Barbers Hill school district prompted a new law meant to prohibit schools from punishing students with hairstyles associated with race. A recent student suspension sparks questions about the extent of the CROWN Act’s protections.
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Fort Worth resident Maria Gonzalez knew her daughter’s grades were off.Gonzalez’s 8-year-old daughter, Citlalic, got perfect scores at school. Her teacher said she was doing great.
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Sabrina Ball, a Fort Worth mother of two, will carefully watch her local school board for the next several months. As her children begin a new academic year, her district will have to vote on whether to hire or accept volunteer chaplains into its schools.
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Over half of the 12 school districts in Fort Worth saw decreases in third-grade reading scores on the state standardized test, while the other six had increases or stable numbers.
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A patriotic gnome statue stands tall on a teacher’s desk at Fort Worth’s Key School and Training Center. Instead of students, teachers are seated at desks shouting adjectives that describe the gnome. Together, they will construct a descriptive paragraph.
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Low-income households can qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches in public schools thanks to a federal free and reduced lunch program. Applications are open in school districts across Tarrant County for those who wish to participate in the program.
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“If I were grading our state legislature based on their performance and what they did for children and families, even with grade inflation, I would give them a D plus, maybe a D minus.”
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The superintendent says this is just phase 1.