AUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democrats condemned today’s state takeover of Fort Worth ISD, calling it the latest example of Republican leadership’s systematic assault on local control and Texans’ neighborhood schools. The Texas Education Agency announced it will replace FWISD’s elected school board with a state-appointed board of managers, stripping Fort Worth voters of their voice in local school governance despite the district’s recent academic improvements.

Texas House Democratic Leader Rep. Gene Wu: “Fort Worth families elected their school board to represent their values and their children’s needs. Today, Greg Abbott and his cronies at TEA took that voice away. This is the same playbook they used on my community in Houston: when parents don’t bow to Republicans’ extremist agenda, th

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