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LAKE WORTH, Texas – The Texas Education Agency is taking over Lake Worth<\/a> ISD, they announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n The news comes after what the agency called chronic academic problems<\/a> at several campuses.<\/p>\n Lake Worth ISD TEA takeover <\/p>\n The latest:<\/p>\n Thursday’s letter, which was signed by agency commissioner Mike Morath, officially orders the installation of a board of managers to govern the district and a conservator. Morath will also appoint a new superintendent at a later date, the letter says.\u00a0<\/p>\n Morath says this is due to one campus earning its fifth consecutive unacceptable academic accountability rating.\u00a0<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n An informal review for the district has been scheduled for Dec. 19 at 2:15 p.m. This will allow for Morath to hear from the district about his board and conservator appointments.\u00a0<\/p>\n The letter says all such information and documentation should be submitted to TEA no later than Monday, Dec. 15.<\/p>\n ‘Unacceptable performance’ <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n In part, Morath’s letter says:<\/p>\n “Unacceptable academic performance in a single year represents significant academic weakness \u2013 typically less than one-third of students in those campuses reach grade level and less than one-half of students on those campuses demonstrate a year\u2019s worth of academic growth. When that unacceptable performance continues for multiple years, the children in those campuses develop \u00a0significant academic gaps. Multi-year unacceptable ratings represent a school district\u2019s most fundamental mission failure and a complete inability to take necessary action to provide a high quality education for students.”<\/p>\n In a later release to FOX 4, Lake Worth ISD included the following statement:<\/p>\n “We accept the TEA\u2019s decision and view this as an opportunity to accelerate our progress,” said Superintendent Dr. Mark Ramirez. “Our focus remains clear: supporting teachers, improving instruction and doing what\u2019s best for kids. We are committed to transparency, accountability and partnership as we work side-by-side with TEA to ensure lasting improvements for our students.”<\/p>\n Lake Worth ISD academic troubles <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The TEA began weighing the idea of a LWISD takeover in October. Morath visited the district’s six campuses towards the end of that month to assess the options moving forward.<\/p>\n At that time, it was noted that five of the district’s six campuses had F ratings for the previous academic year. The remaining campus received a D. Marilyn Miller Language Academy was the campus with its fifth-consecutive unacceptable academic accountability rating, prompting a choice between a district takeover or a campus shutdown.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report came from the TEA and previous FOX 4 coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lake Worth<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LAKE WORTH, Texas – The Texas Education Agency is taking over Lake Worth ISD, they announced Thursday.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,116,118,117,2091,223,122,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-84958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-lake-worth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84958","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=84958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}