5 Schools To Become FWISD Leadership Academies
Fort Worth ISD received $1-million check from Rainwater Foundation to support the academies.
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Fort Worth ISD received $1-million check from Rainwater Foundation to support the academies.
Amid questions surrounding President Trump's immigration policy, Fort Worth ISD trustees could decide tonight if the district should make their campuses "safe schools."
The school board president called it a historic night for Fort Worth ISD.
Maitri Kovuru of the McLean 6th Grade Learning Center took the crown in the "Area 6" group.
Health experts in Fort Worth say they have seen a drop in the number of obese children and the number of children at risk of being obese.
The Texas Education Agency released the grades they have given to each Texas public school and their respective school districts in what the agency is calling a "work in progress" report.
FWISD said James Wellman, the principal at Western Hills High School, died unexpectedly Thursday evening.
The school district said the employee does not work on a school campus.
Fort Worth ISD Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to extend the contract of Superintendent Kent Scribner with a five-year commitment to fulfill the District's mission.
All of the students at Fort Worth's North Side High School will be on campus today, but some will be in different classrooms after an overnight fires damaged areas in and outside of the school.
Thousands of students in the FWISD will be handed a special treat at lunch on Wednesday to encourage healthy eating habits. They are putting away the leftover Halloween candy and picking up apples.
Board members approved targeted improvement plans as well as turnaround plans.
Improving Fort Worth ISD's lowest performing schools is on the agenda for Tuesday's school board meeting.
Fort Worth is looking at ways to improve education for young children at community centers, churches and after school programs as well as in schools to boost fundamental reading skills.
Durham's own attorney turned him in, and claimed Durham said he was capable of "doing things along the line of what happened in Newtown (Connecticut)."
The FWISD Superintendent was on hand today to greet parents and children as they arrived for the first day of school at the new, aboveground Washington Heights Elementary School.
They're looking for lead in water at schools.
The Fort Worth School District is replacing hundreds of drinking fountains after discovering unsafe lead levels in the water.
Fort Worth Independent School District employees arrived at work this morning to find the front of their building demolished after a gang of criminals pulled an early morning smash and grab.
A federal investigator says former Fort Worth ISD drama teacher and church youth minister Matthew Keller told him he met a Michigan boy about two years ago on a website.
According to the criminal complaint, Keller befriended a teen from Michigan online two years ago.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick renewed his campaign Tuesday to oust Dr. Kent Scriber after Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion on the district's transgender policy.
The Fort Worth ISD sent Attorney General Ken Paxton a letter addressing the district's transgender student guidelines.
Texas leaders on Tuesday are set to take the next step in clarifying the state's bathroom policy. Meanwhile, the Fort Worth ISD will begin holding a series of community forums to discuss the the bathroom battle.
Parents, supporters and protestors are expected to gather again in Fort Worth tonight. The transgender bathroom issue is expected to come up during the Fort Worth Independent School District school board meeting.
