The schools with the most vacancies are at South Hills High School and Como Success Academy, which each have seven vacancies.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Ahead of its first full school year under state control<\/a>, Fort Worth ISD has more than 200 teaching vacancies that need to be filled across the district, records show.<\/p>\n According to public records obtained by WFAA, the district has 213 vacancies across 89 divisions.<\/p>\n South Hills High School and Como Success Academy each have the most vacant positions, seven.<\/p>\n This comes as the district is in the midst of a transition to state control, as ruled by the Texas Education Association. The district’s new state-appointed board had its first meeting late last month, where it promised transparency and improvements.<\/p>\n The district also has a new state-appointed superintendent<\/a>, Peter Licata, who is being paid $1,384.62 a day on an interim basis as the district tackles a $40 million deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n Licata said his immediate focus is improving classroom instruction, starting with teacher recruitment and pay. He floated the possibility of significantly higher salaries for top-performing teachers in struggling schools, potentially reaching $110,000 to $120,000 annually, though funding details remain unclear.<\/p>\n “That is what we’re working on,” he told WFAA during a sit-down interview<\/a>. “I am very confident. I’m not confident. I’m very confident we will be able to compete, if not beat, the other local ISDs. I just went through the budget, and I know we\u2019re $40 million in debt, but that\u2019s going to change real soon.”<\/p>\n The\u00a0state takeover was triggered in October 2025<\/a> after one campus received a fifth consecutive failing academic rating, as required under Texas law. Licata replaces\u00a0former superintendent Karen Molinar<\/a>, who had led the district since March 2025.<\/p>\n TEA Commissioner Mike Morath previously announced he’ll assess academic progress in two years. If improvement isn’t sufficient, he’ll then reassess after another two years. State-appointed leadership could last upwards of four years before it returns to locally elected control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The schools with the most vacancies are at South Hills High School and Como Success Academy, which each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-246332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}