Fort Worth ISD needs reform. Admitting that is the easy part.
But how the district pursues — or is allowed to pursue — reform is crucial to building schools that serve our kids faithfully.
Mike Morath asserts that those choices, by a plain reading of the Texas Education Code, are already out of the elected school board’s hands. The Texas Education Agency commissioner pointed to a Fort Worth campus that failed state benchmarks in five consecutive years, which he says forces his hand and may compel the state to take over the entire district…