received a failing accountability rating for five consecutive years<\/a>. Five of Lake Worth ISD\u2019s six campuses are currently rated failing, according to the agency.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m disappointed in the decision, but I accept the decision the TEA made,\u201d Ramirez said.<\/p>\n
The TEA’s takeover will replace the elected school board with a state-appointed board of managers, appoint a conservator, and lead to the selection of a new superintendent. Timelines for those changes have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath has said the district\u2019s performance left the state with no other option.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we want to see in Lake Worth is no more failing campuses, period,\u201d Morath said.<\/p>\n
Morath visited Lake Worth in October and has described the district\u2019s challenges as longstanding. In a letter to the district, he cited a chronic inability to support students in learning and achieving at high levels.<\/p>\n
Some teachers and parents told trustees they believe progress is underway and worry a state takeover could disrupt that momentum.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis school year, I\u2019ve seen a shift. A path toward improvement,\u201d said Katrina Lemond, a third-grade teacher in the district. \u201cI believe in what we do here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramirez didn’t confirm whether district leaders plan to appeal the TEA\u2019s decision. Trustees are scheduled to make their case to the agency during a hearing in Austin on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll appeal, but they\u2019re going to make a case for what we\u2019ve done and the positive changes we\u2019ve seen,\u201d Ramirez said.<\/p>\n
Lake Worth ISD is the second district in Tarrant County to face a state takeover this year, following Fort Worth ISD. While district leaders say they respect the TEA\u2019s decision, Ramirez emphasized that his focus remains on students as the process moves forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe in this district,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
If the TEA determines the district\u2019s improvements are not sufficient, the state takeover will proceed as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Worth ISD Superintendent Dr. Mark Ramirez said the struggling district must move forward following the announcement of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-451132","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-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451132","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=451132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}