The Texas Education Agency is taking over the Lake Worth Independent School District after Marilyn Miller Language Academy received five consecutive F ratings, state education officials announced Thursday.
The takeover means Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath will name a replacement for district Superintendent Mark Ramirez and appoint a board of managers to temporarily replace the district’s school board.
Lake Worth ISD is the second Tarrant County school district to be taken over by the state in the past year. TEA officials announced in October that they would take over Fort Worth ISD after a similar series of consecutive F ratings at a middle school in the district…