{"id":402655,"date":"2026-08-10T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402655\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:48:15","slug":"fort-worth-isd-says-it-will-start-school-year-with-zero-teacher-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402655\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth ISD says it will start school year with zero teacher vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth ISD says it will begin the 2026-27 school year with zero teacher vacancies, a significant turnaround from earlier staffing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Fort Worth ISD says it will begin the 2026-27 school year with no teacher vacancies, marking a significant turnaround for a district that faced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/education\/fort-worth-isd-superintendent-first-day-of-school-district-teacher-vaccancies\/287-6d4e28f8-fd92-44c7-b376-2c6397183eff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">major staffing concerns<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The district announced the milestone Sunday, one day before students are scheduled to return to class Monday, Aug. 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA milestone worth celebrating! Fort Worth ISD is opening the 2026-27 school year with 0 teacher vacancies,\u201d the district said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after a months-long push to fill positions following more than 1,000 staff departures ahead of the new school year.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as July 23, Fort Worth ISD reported it still had 20 classroom teacher vacancies remaining with fewer than three weeks before the first day of school.<\/p>\n<p>The district said Sunday that historically it has begun the school year with more than 200 teacher vacancies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, every student will have a teacher on day one,\u201d the district said.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth ISD credited school principals, its talent management team and other district employees with filling the remaining positions.<\/p>\n<p>The district has spent months recruiting educators, including holding hiring fairs throughout the summer. In April, Fort Worth ISD also announced an automatic 5% raise for classroom teachers as part of its efforts to recruit and retain educators.<\/p>\n<p>Although Fort Worth ISD says it has filled its teacher vacancies, the district continues to advertise other employment opportunities, including positions in special education and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>The district called reaching zero teacher vacancies the result of \u201cteamwork, urgency, and commitment\u201d from employees across Fort Worth ISD.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/school-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth ISD says it will begin the 2026-27 school year with zero teacher vacancies, a significant turnaround&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-402655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402655","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=402655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}