News broke this week that the Texas Education Agency is going to remove the Fort Worth Independent School District’s elected board members and could appoint a new superintendent.
“This is the second high-profile takeover in the state in recent years,” said Renzo Downey, lead writer of The Blast, the Texas Tribune’s premium politics newsletter. A takeover of the Houston Independent School District started in 2023.
State takeovers of districts can only be initiated if one of its schools receives a failing grade from the education agency for five consecutive years. In Fort Worth, the school that triggered the takeover was Leadership Academy at Forest Oak Sixth Grade.
Fort Worth ISD shut the school down before it officially received its fifth F rating, but that didn’t prevent TEA action.
“Members of the community and across the state are concerned about this,” Downey said.
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