Changes to county tax policy sound wonky and not that exciting. FWISD officials laid out the stakes last night. star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…

Things are not OK in OK >>> Emily Richmond Lori Crouch

Earlier this year, high school counselors were pretty sure the FAFSA meltdown was going to keep a lot of kids out of college. It now looks like, through a lot of hard work by those same counselors, we may have avoided the worst effects of that mess. star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…

BREAKING: Mayor Mattie Parker along with the whole city council and a list of community stakeholders release letter calling for improvements at Fort Worth Independent School District Silas Allen has the story for Fort Worth Star-Telegram star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…

Fort Worth Mayor Parker calls for Fort Worth ISD turnaround | Fort Worth Star-Telegram #txlege #txed star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…

If you haven’t heard enough about GOP dollars funding the efforts to undermine North Texas school districts, here’s a quick one for you on the “doxxing bus” that has been wheeling around Coppell ISD in the name of Project 2025 ideals. Link here , 🧵below

Last week, Mayor Mattie Parker called for FWISD to do better on student achievement, and pointed to the state takeover of Houston ISD as an example of what can happen if they don't. But it's hard to say exactly how likely a takeover is here. star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…

Sharing what I'm calling my magnum opus - the story it feels like I've been writing for four years. As I'm closing out this chapter of my *career*, writing about the impact of natural gas drilling reminded me of why this coverage is important. fortworthreport.org/2024/09/01/lan…

I'm serious about this. For a month and a half, journalists can just fling voting questions out to like two dozen experts and see which one answers first i am not making this up has sourcing ever been easier it has not

Goodbye to the brilliant James Earl Jones. He gave one of the finest poetic speeches in cinema history. I still feel the same way about baseball all these years later. Field of Dreams

If anybody else had given this speech, it would have sounded like overwrought nonsense. youtube.com/watch?v=EBwhjA…

Fort Worth ISD released its own A-F scores this morning, showing a 36% decline in D- and F-rated schools. star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…

BREAKING: UNT eliminates three faculty senate committees and all of its employee resource groups, citing the Texas DEI ban, also known as SB 17. dallasnews.com/news/education…

Last week, FWISD released self-calculated A-F numbers showing the district was making progress. Now, TEA says the district got some of the math wrong. star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…

Fort Worth ISD says its C rating didn't change after TEA asked it to double check its math. star-telegram.com/news/local/edu…