FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth Independent School District and city leaders passed a literacy resolution Tuesday night to make sure more students can read at grade level.
District leaders and city leaders, including Mayor Mattie Parker, announced a “new, intense focus on failure to read at grade level” at a news conference before the board meeting.
Literacy in the district has been described as a civic crisis. Trustees say only 43% of their students meet grade-level standards.
In August, the mayor called for sweeping changes, saying the district fell 11 percentage points below Dallas ISD and 14 below Houston ISD. A month later, the superintendent resigned…