Rocketship Public Schools Texas, a financially beleaguered charter school network, is closing its Fort Worth school at the end of the school year, officials announced Friday.
The network will surrender its charter to the Texas Education Agency and turn its Berry Street building, the current home of Rocketship Dennis Dunkins Elementary School , over to Responsive Education Solutions, the Lewisville-based charter school operator behind Ignite Community Schools. The building will reopen next year as an Ignite campus.
Rocketship Dennis Dunkins Elementary opened in 2022. At the time, the school’s superintendent, SaJade Miller, told the Star-Telegram he hoped it would offer an alternative to students who were underserved by the traditional public school system…