{"id":290830,"date":"2025-10-10T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:39:13","slug":"what-did-fwisd-spend-money-on-in-september-reading-lessons-construction-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290830\/","title":{"rendered":"What did FWISD spend money on in September? Reading lessons, construction and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth ISD trustees approved more than $68 million in contracts and purchases during their Sept. 23 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The school board signed off on <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2025\/09\/23\/bible-stories-featured-in-fort-worth-schools-new-reading-lessons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new reading program<\/a>, extended academic partnerships and multiple construction agreements tied to the <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/03\/27\/whats-happening-with-fort-worth-isds-2021-bond-heres-where-1-2b-program-stands\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1.2 billion bond<\/a> voters passed in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Big-ticket items include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>$45.4 million for the <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2022\/06\/01\/new-elementary-schools-coming-to-3-fort-worth-isd-communities-but-likely-at-a-cost-campus-consolidation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replacement of Maudrie M. Walton Elementary<\/a>. The contract authorizes the district to negotiate with three construction firms for the large-scale renovation. The project is funded through the <a href=\"https:\/\/fwisd2021bond.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1.2 billion bond package<\/a> voters approved in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>$15 million in job order contracting services. The agreements allow FWISD to move quickly on future bond-funded construction and maintenance projects.<\/li>\n<li>$2.4 million to adopt Bluebonnet Learning\u2019s elementary reading language arts program. The measure <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2025\/09\/23\/bible-stories-featured-in-fort-worth-schools-new-reading-lessons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed 6-3 after debate over lessons<\/a> that include Bible stories. Trustees Camille Rodriguez, Wallace Bridges and Quinton Phillips dissented, with Phillips arguing the program amounted to \u201cstate-sanctioned indoctrination.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matthew Sgroi is an education reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at matthew.sgroi@fortworthreport.org or <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/matthewsgroi1\" rel=\"nofollow\">@matthewsgroi1<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/about\/fort-worth-report-editorial-independence-policy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Report is <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/08\/25\/fort-worth-report-achieves-global-trust-certification-heres-what-it-means-for-our-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative<\/a> for adhering to standards for ethical journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Republish This Story<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758084579_646_cc-by-nd-4.0.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republishing is free for noncommercial entities. Commercial entities are prohibited without a licensing agreement. Contact us for details. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Sgroi is an education reporter for Fort Worth Report. He can be reached at matthew.sgroi@fortworthreport.org or (503)-828-4063. Sgroi is a graduate of Texas Christian University and has worked&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/author\/matthew-sgroi\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Matthew Sgroi\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth ISD trustees approved more than $68 million in contracts and purchases during their Sept. 23 meeting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,14948,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-290830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-isd","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115347558870211478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290830","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=290830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}