The Texas Education Agency will boot the democratically-elected board of the Fort Worth Independent School District and appoint a new slate of leaders to oversee its campuses, marking the second-largest takeover in state history, Commissioner Mike Morath announced Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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