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FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> – The Fort Worth Independent School District\u2019s superintendent is planning to take bold, urgent action to revitalize six low-performing schools.<\/p>\n The plan from the Texas Education Agency will provide additional staffing and programming. But the teachers and administrators at those schools will have to reapply for their jobs.<\/p>\n Fort Worth ISD Resource Campuses What we know:<\/p>\n The changes are being made to prevent the state from taking over the district after another year of performance challenges.<\/p>\n They affect Clifford Davis, West Handley, and Western Hills elementary and primary schools, as well as Morningside, Wedgwood, and William James middle schools.<\/p>\n Those schools will adopt the Resource Campus Model proposed by the TEA.<\/p>\n They will receive additional local and state funding for teaching incentives and high-quality learning material, but all existing teachers, principals, and assistant principals will need to reapply for their jobs before next year.<\/p>\n Those who qualify to remain in their positions will be eligible for extra compensation.<\/p>\n The educators who do not qualify may be moved to other campuses but will not lose their jobs as a result of the initiative.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “We are doing it now so we have a year to plan,” said Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Dr. Karen Molinar. “This is student focused for their students. We know they have been sitting on a campus that has not shown the progress that it needs and our kids deserve. The campus definitely does not lose the community feel. We\u2019re going to increase parent partnerships. I like to call it parent partnership, just not engagement. And then we\u2019re also looking at how can we provide more resources.”<\/p>\n The superintendent said all of the schools on the list have received unacceptable ratings for multiple years, and that means the students there are not only behind but sitting at a campus that has not shown any progress.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s important we intervene as soon as we can,” she said.<\/p>\n Steven Poole, who represents employees in Fort Worth ISD said how the superintendent articulates her vision for the district will be important.<\/p>\n “No one likes change, especially if you\u2019ve been at the school for a while,”\u00a0 he said. “Give it some time. I think you will see results.”<\/p>\n Neither wants what has been happening in Houston to happen in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n “You see the turmoil that is occuring in Houston. They\u2019ve had some short-term student success, but is it really set up for long-term success? A multi-billion dollar bond election failed in Houston, and that was a referendum on the state takeover,” Poole said.<\/p>\n He thinks Superintendent Molinar\u2019s plan will be more successful.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Fort Worth ISD will hold a briefing about the plans on Tuesday.<\/p>\n School board trustees will also consider adopting the Bluebonnet Reading Language Arts curriculum, which was developed with teachers across Texas and reviewed by hundreds of FWISD teachers last spring.<\/p>\n If approved, it will be rolled out as early as this school year in the spring.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from Fort Worth ISD, TEA officials, and interviews with Superintendent Karen Molinar and Steven Poole, the executive director of the United Educators Association.<\/p>\n Fort Worth ISD<\/a>Fort Worth<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas – The Fort Worth Independent School District\u2019s superintendent is planning to take bold, urgent action…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,407,7371,14948,7372,50,12632,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-237648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-isd","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-organization","15":"tag-tarrant-county","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115228170615895609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/v-fwisd-downsizing-discussion-12p_kdfw62fe_146_mxf_00.00.18.46.jpg\")
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