More principals left Fort Worth ISD last year than in any year since 2017

More principals left Fort Worth ISD last year than in any year since 2017

The Fort Worth ISD administration building on Sept. 22, 2023. (Dang Le | Fort Worth Report)
” data-medium-file=”https://fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_6466-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_6466-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C585&ssl=1″ tabindex=”0″ role=”button”>More principals left Fort Worth ISD last school year than in any other year since at least 2017, according to data from two open records requests filed by the Fort Worth Report.Educators say that the exit of a principal can lead to a lack of stability that students expect when they arrive on campus each day. The role includes building relationships with teachers and fostering connections between parents and school staff. Families are used to seeing the same faces in their schools when they drop their kids off and pick them up, said Steven Poole, director of the United Educators Association. “It causes some discomfort at the parent level,” Poole said. “They want stability in their schools, they want to know that the principals are there, and will be there, in their school.”When a break occurs, campus resources are strained, Poole said. That stress has been increasingly felt by parents and educators across Fort Worth ISD in the past year, according to Poole and several teachers. During the 2023-24 school year, 49 principals or assistant principals across 41 campuses resigned or retired.!function(){“use strict”;window.addEventListener(“message”,(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[“datawrapper-height”]){var e=document.querySelectorAll(“iframe”);for(var t in a.data[“datawrapper-height”])for(var r=0;r

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