The uniform education system of the past has evolved into a dynamic and diverse tapestry\u2014an intricate quilt of many pieces, each contributing to a whole greater than the sum of its parts. This shift, while not without its challenges, has also created meaningful opportunities for growth and innovation.<\/p>\n
To build on these opportunities, Fort Worth Education Partnership is dedicated to supporting and expanding this mix of quality schools, ensuring every child in Fort Worth has greater access to the best possible public education.<\/p>\n
The unfortunate reality right now is that many children in our public school system are struggling for all kinds of complex social and systemic reasons and are not prepared for academic success beyond high school. Most Fort Worth third graders are not reading at grade level, and studies show that 75% of children who struggle with reading in third grade never catch up and are four times more likely to drop out before graduating.<\/p>\n
Thousands of Fort Worth children are mired in generations of poverty, inadequate education, and lack of opportunity. Still, in some of the city\u2019s most underserved areas, schools are achieving remarkable success in providing vulnerable students with access to a high-quality education. Some kids are getting a great public education in Fort Worth. But too many are not.<\/p>\n
This is why I am grateful for the patchwork quilt that is public education today\u2014neighborhood schools, district schools of choice, district-charter partnerships, early college high schools, and public charter schools. These options, accessible to all families, help expand opportunities beyond the constraints of a child\u2019s ZIP code.<\/p>\n
At our best in Fort Worth we are able to see public education not as a disjointed jumble of adults\u2019 competing interests but as that beautiful patchwork quilt, working together every way possible with the best interests of Fort Worth kids at heart.<\/p>\n
The truth is, when we weave our communities together, it is almost always stronger and more beautiful.<\/p>\n
The people of Winchester in England were devastated that they lost their beautiful, ancient stained glass windows when Oliver Cromwell\u2019s troops destroyed their cathedral in the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0century. It was all they had ever known. What they did in response was gather and save all the fragmented pieces of stained glass that littered the ground.<\/p>\n Years later, when this violent time had passed, one cathedral worker volunteered for the difficult task of re-installing the windows. High on a scaffold, he assembled all those broken pieces into an abstraction of color.<\/p>\n It resembled nothing in Europe at that time, and even today it stands out. And no one can deny that those windows of reconstructed bits of glass are a work of great beauty, a work of art. The light from the sun filters through to illumine the cathedral with a constantly changing mosaic of colors.<\/p>\n Even when the unified social fabric we used to know comes apart, new life and beauty can come from the pieces when they are put back together. The pieces can become raw material for the creation of something new and beautiful \u2014 something that establishes connection, builds relationships, offers care, creates trust, educates all our children, and makes our communities better places for all.<\/p>\n And that is beautiful.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High up in the Winchester Cathedral in England sits a stained glass window that is extremely unusual for the time in which it was created \u2014 the 17th century. It doesn\u2019t represent a scene from the Bible. It doesn\u2019t memorialize a saint. It\u2019s a kaleidoscope of colors, a very contemporary looking stained glass window. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fortworthep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Winchester-Cathedral-300x232.jpg\")
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