Fort Worth Independent School District

Fort Worth Independent School District is a school district based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is currently the fifth largest school district in Texas (but may fall to sixth within the next 1–2 years).

Fort Worth ISD serves most of the city of Fort Worth. The district also serves the cities of Benbrook, Westover Hills, Westworth Village, and Kennedale. The district also covers portions of Forest Hill and Haltom City and unincorporated portions of Tarrant County.

In 2010, the district unveiled one of the largest, most comprehensive redesigns of secondary education in the nation with its Gold Seal Programs of Choice and Gold Seal Schools of Choice. Each of its 13 high schools introduced curricula focused on college and career pathways. As part of the Gold Seal plan, the district has also opened a single-gender school for girls, the Young Women's Leadership Academy; a single-gender school for boys, the Young Men's Leadership Academy; an early college high school, Marine Creek Collegiate High School; and an early college medical high school, the Texas Academy of Biomedical Sciences.[1]

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.[2]

School uniforms

Fort Worth ISD approved mandatory school uniforms, referred to as "standards of dress," for all schools in grades K-8 for the 2006-2007 school year. The new policy mandates collared blue or white and tucked-in shirts and disallows baggy pants and revealing tops, though even before uniform rules of baggy pants and revealing tops were already in place. High school students are not required to wear uniforms, but may not wear T-shirts as outer clothing.[3]

The Texas Education Agency specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform;[4] parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections. But despite that law many opt outs were rejected and the district was sued but won, this opt out is required by Texas state law, but many were ignored

Salary

For the 14-15 school year, salaries for new Fort Worth teachers with a bachelor's degree and no experience started at $48,300. With over 32 years of teaching experience, a FWISD teacher holding a bachelor's degree would gross $75,054. Masters and Doctoral degrees increase a FWISD's teacher's pay by approximately $1,000/yr and $4,000/yr respectively.[5]

Teacher Salaries in the FWISD are ranked among the top ten of the districts in the area. For the 09-10 school year, salary for new teachers was ranked 7th. This was above Eagle Mtn/Saginaw ($46540) and below Mansfield ($46800). They ranked 1st place for teachers with over 30 years of experience.[6]

Schools

Secondary schools

High schools (Grades 9-12)

Zoned
Gold Seal Schools of Choice
Alternative

Middle Schools (Grades 6-8)

Primary schools

See also

References

  1. ↑ Fort Worth students applying for Gold Seal slots | The Star-Telegram
  2. ↑ "2009 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
  3. ↑ "Standards of Dress". Archived from the original on 2008-06-05.
  4. ↑ "Uniforms," Texas Education Agency
  5. ↑ http://www.fwisd.org/files/_2fLUf_/1959616f06a3f3e73745a49013852ec4/2014-2015_teacher_salary_schedule.pdf
  6. ↑ http://ueatexas.com/pdf/salary09-10west.pdf
  7. 1 2 Microsoft Word - list-2003.doc
  8. ↑ Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF)

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