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Major Diss
If you think the TEA’s takeover of Fort Worth
ISD will help students and parents, you are sorely mistaken.
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young people and making their education better. It has to do with power and politics.
This takeover fits the precise definition of government overreach by our Republicandominated state government. The radical action of taking over a school district and disenfranchising its voters should happen only in extreme circumstances, when a district is not improving and is so dysfunctional, it won’t. And none of the above is true of Fort Worth ISD. The sole reason the TEA gave for the takeover is the five consecutive F grades by the Leadership Academy at Forest Oak Sixth Grade. While technically, the state has the right to take over FWISD, it shouldn’t. In Texas’ ninth-largest school district, with 68,000 students and more than 120 schools, one school’s failure should never lead to this nuclear option.
You may think the TEA’s takeover of the Fort Worth school district is not your fight. To you, FWISD is just another urban school district that can’t or won’t educate its mostly poor and minority students. In these pages, I’ve strongly criticized the district when I thought it deserved it. As a former FWISD teacher for 18 years, I, along with my colleagues, always found much to complain about, but none of us wished for this. The TEA’s takeover has nothing to do with improving the lives of our
For the past few years, Fort Worth ISD has bent over backward to work with the state. In 2020, it allowed the Texas Wesleyan University Leadership Academy Network to take over Forest Oak because of a state law that encourages privatization of failing campuses to avoid takeover. After two years of that, there was no improvement, so to avoid state sanctions, FWISD closed the school back in 2023.
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Could what happen to these portables back in 2022 be a harbinger of what’s in store for all of Fort Worth ISD after the TEA takeover?
Besides bending over backward for the state, including approving this past September a Biblebased curriculum, Fort Worth ISD has shown quite a bit of improvement over the past few years despite our state government’s unconstitutional refusal to fund it adequately while it still deals with the aftermath of COVID learning loss. In 2023, the district was given a D, but in 2024 and continuing in 2025, it received C ratings. In 2025, A-rated schools increased by 70%, and F-rated schools dropped from 31 to 11. Sure, FWISD still needs to improve, but it has shown that it is up to that task.
The TEA and the state of Texas are not neutral parties. Our Republican-dominated state government has worked for years to undermine public schools and teachers. During COVID, they complained about a totally fictitious Critical Race Theory being foisted on students. They encouraged moral panics about all things trans and books
Defunding and delegitimizing public education have
been long-term projects of the radical, anti-government Republican head honchos in this state.
most difficult times ever — had to bear the brunt of parents angry over made-up BS. Then the governor held an increase in teacher pay hostage for him to get his voucher scheme passed, which will end up defunding public education.
And the TEA is no technocratic savior of our public schools. Its record in takeovers is nothing to brag about. For example, Edgewood ISD and Beaumont ended up with more failing schools after the state took them over. The TEA has lately trumpeted Houston ISD’s improvement in scores
inflated those scores to make itself look better.
Our state education Commissar Mike Morath — who warned teachers not to sully the name of Christian Nationalist Saint Charlie Kirk or else — is all in on taking over school districts, but, according to a ProPublica study, he looks the other way when it comes to charter schools: “On at least 17 occasions, Morath has waived expansion requirements for charter networks that had too many failing campuses to qualify.”
So, the fact that Morath encourages charters
public education have been long-term projects of the radical, anti-government Republican head honchos in this state. They want to defund public schools to sell them to their cronies.
This uncalled for and radical takeover is not designed to help Fort Worth ISD schools. It will lead, as it has in Houston, to an exodus of students and teachers, and I can safely predict area charter schools, whose failures are being ignored by TEA, will see their enrollments boom.
We must fight back. Fort Worth is being disrespected by a corrupt Republican state government. Even in this radically gerrymandered state, where the GOP works overtime to take away our vote, we who can need to vote these bought-andpaid-for haters out. We need a state government that cares about public education, teachers, administrators, students, and average Texans, not just its mega-rich donors. l
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CLASSIFIEDS
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Consolidated Notice of Receipt of Application and Intent to Obtain Permit and Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision
Air Quality Standard Permit for Concrete Batch Plants Proposed Registration No. 181664L001
Application. Potter Ready Mix, LLC, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for an Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 181664L001, which would authorize construction of a temporary concrete batch plant located at 2651 South Beltline Road, Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas 75060. This application is being processed in an expedited manner, as allowed by the commission’s rules in 30 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 101, Subchapter J. AVISO DE IDIOMA ALTERNATIVO. El aviso de idioma alternativo en español está disponible en https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/newsourcereview/airpermits-pendingpermit-apps. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. https://gisweb.tceq.texas.gov/LocationMapper/?marker=-96.99703202331352,32.78091643658646&lev el=18. The proposed facility will emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, road dust, and particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less.
This application was submitted to the TCEQ on September 26, 2025. The executive director has completed the administrative and technical reviews of the application and determined that the application meets all of the requirements of a standard permit authorized by 30 TAC § 116.611, which would establish the conditions under which the plant must operate. The executive director has made a preliminary decision to issue the registration because it meets all applicable rules. The application, executive director’s preliminary decision, and standard permit will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and at Tony Shotwell Library located at 2750 Graham Street, Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas 75050, beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review at the TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Office, 2309 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, Texas. Visit www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cbp to review the standard permit. The application, including any updates, is available electronically at the following webpage: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/airpermit-applications-notices
Public Comment/Public Meeting. You may submit public comments or request a public meeting. See Contacts section. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments or meeting requests is 30 days after newspaper notice is published. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to consider in the permit process. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. If a public meeting is held, the deadline to submit public comments is extended to the end of the public meeting.
Contested Case Hearing. You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 30 days from this notice, the executive director may approve the application.
A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. To request a hearing, a person must actually reside in a permanent residence within 440 yards of the proposed plant. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and registration number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests which the group or association seeks to protect must be identified. You may submit your proposed adjustments to the application which would satisfy your concerns. See Contacts section.
TCEQ Action. After the deadline for public comments, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. The executive director’s decision on the application, and any response to comments, will be mailed to all persons on the mailing list. If no timely contested case hearing requests are received, or if all hearing requests are withdrawn, the executive director may issue final approval of the application. If all timely hearing requests are not withdrawn, the executive director will not issue final approval of the permit and will forward the application and requests to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled commission meeting. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding.
Mailing List. You may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive additional information on this specific application. See Contacts section.
Information Available Online. For details about the status of the application, visit the Commissioners’ Integrated Database (CID) at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/cid. Once you have access to the CID using the link, enter the registration number at the top of this notice.
AGENCY CONTACTS AND INFORMATION. All public comments and requests must be submitted either electronically at www14.tceq. texas.gov/epic/eComment/, or in writing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk, MC-105, P.O. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087. Please be aware that any contact information you provide, including your name, phone number, email address and physical address will become part of the agency’s public record. For more information about the permitting process, please call the TCEQ Public Education Program, Toll Free, at 1-800-687-4040 or visit their website at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/pep. Si desea información en Español, puede llamar al 1-800-687-4040. You can also view our website for public participation opportunities at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/participation.
Further information may also be obtained from Potter Ready Mix, LLC, 2400 E Pioneer Dr, Irving, TX 75061-8900 or by calling Mrs. Melissa Fitts, Senior Vice President, Westward Environmental, Inc. at (830) 249-8284.
Notice Issuance Date: October 24, 2025
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