Silas Allen
Education Enterprise Reporter at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Education enterprise reporter for @StarTelegram. Before: @Dallas_Observer, @TheOklahoman_. Stroke survivor, Missourian, Mizzou alum. No sniveling.
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1 week ago |
star-telegram.com | Silas Allen
For years, officials in the Fort Worth Independent School District used the same strategy to try to boost student achievement: Offer coaching and guidance to teachers and hope that, as they got better at their jobs, higher test scores would follow. District leaders now acknowledge that strategy wasn't working. So beginning next year, the district will try something new.
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2 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Silas Allen
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath speaks Wednesday, April 23, at a press conference at the Rotary Club of Dallas. Morath acknowledged that families would likely find the state's long-delayed 2023 A-F accountability scores of limited use.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Silas Allen
Andrew Lou, field engineer for Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, right, shows SaJade Miller, center, the progress being made at the site of the future Rocketship Dennis Dunkins Elementary School on Tuesday, May 18, 2022. Rocketship Public Schools Texas, a financially beleaguered charter school network, is closing its Fort Worth school at the end of the school year, officials announced Friday.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Silas Allen
Fort Worth Independent School District board President Roxanne Martinez faces off against Robyne Kelly, a retired flight attendant and substitute teacher, for the District 9 school board seat. Martinez, who is wrapping up her first term on the board, touted her experience as a board member during a time of challenges and transitions. Kelly pledged to fight for a quality public education for all students. Early voting runs from April 22-April 29 for the May 3 election.
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1 month ago |
star-telegram.com | Silas Allen
Annie Morey, 4, shares a laugh with her father, Spencer, while reading a book in the living room of their home northwest of Fort Worth on Friday, March 28. The Morey family has been in a legal battle with Aledo ISD because they oppose an IQ test for Annie, who has Down syndrome, fearing it could limit her potential in school.
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RT @TaliRichman: State Board of Education members signed off on the curriculum, 8-7: https://t.co/XgkYLkVWE6 The narrow vote came down to…
A retractible-roof stadium in Houston being named after an air conditioner manufacturer seems a little on the nose.
Daikin Park. Coming January 2025 https://t.co/8NJbm9cEu1
Fort Worth ISD is (probably) going to close and consolidate some schools in the next few years. I sat in on a meeting where a public task force is trying to figure out how. https://t.co/07ymrHQUfJ