{"id":391618,"date":"2025-11-20T06:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391618\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:17:27","slug":"fort-worth-isd-will-appeal-state-takeover-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391618\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth ISD will appeal state takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth ISD will officially challenge a state takeover order.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas Education Commissioner ordered the takeover in October due to one school&#8217;s five consecutive years of failing grades.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An administrative law judge now has 30 days after the appeal is filed to decide if the state had sufficient evidence for the decision.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; The Fort Worth Independent School District is appealing a state takeover following a 7 to 1 school board vote.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The takeover, announced in October, was prompted by a now-closed school that received a failing grade for five consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth ISD State Takeover<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/861ebadf0af732197687fab3a597754c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What&#8217;s new<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth ISD\u2019s board of trustees met on Tuesday night to discuss the takeover in executive session. Afterward, they voted 7 to 1 in favor of an appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The district will now file an official appeal of Commissioner Mike Morath\u2019s decision to turn over the district\u2019s operations to a board of managers and a newly appointed superintendent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The goal of the state takeover is to improve Fort Worth ISD\u2019s overall poor academic performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What&#8217;s next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The board\u2019s vote allows an administrative law judge to decide whether the commissioner had enough evidence to justify his decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Once the appeal is filed, the judge has 30 days to issue a ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FOX 4&#8217;s Dionne Anglin gathered information for this story from Tuesday&#8217;s Fort Worth ISD board of trustees meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Fort Worth ISD will officially challenge a state takeover order. 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