Fort Worth ISD mother Keisha Braziel said she was not surprised by the state takeover news.
She said a child’s success in school depends on support at home, including for early literacy, but parents facing problems such as food insecurity and high housing costs do not always have the bandwidth to do anything more.
“The kids that we deal with come with problems that lay at the feet of the city of Fort Worth,” said Braziel, who has a daughter at Dunbar High School, a daughter at I.M. Terrell Academy and a son at Jaquet Middle School. “No one is addressing the issue that the parents can’t really support their children because they’re working two or three jobs just to survive.”…