![]() ![]() “We didn’t allow that setback to stop the work. We’re super excited,” SaJade Miller, the local Rocketship superintendent, said. This will be the second time the organization will go in front of the Board of Education after members voted 12-2 to veto its 2020 application. The State Board of Education is expected to consider Friday allowing Rocketship to begin opening a network of four elementary schools with 2,776 students in Tarrant County over the next five years, according to its proposal. What: The State Board of Education general meeting Opponents also have raised red flags over Rocketship’s operations in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Not only that, they say charter schools will take state dollars away from public schools and hurt more students than they help. While Rocketship has community support, some traditional public school leaders and allies oppose the organization’s plans because they believe Tarrant County has plenty of charter schools. Highway 287 and possibly revingorate the surrounding neighborhoods. Supporters also say the new school could spur economic development in the area east of U.S. Rocketship’s potential entrance into Fort Worth could uplift students like Gonzalo and set them on a path toward success. Unlike other charter schools, Rocketship only offers kindergarten through fifth grade classes. She thinks Gonzalo, her 5-year-old son who will be a kindergartener in the fall, will get that through Rocketship Public Schools, a nonprofit network of charter schools based in California that is in its second year of trying to enter the Fort Worth market. “I need to make sure that his education makes him the best version of himself in the future.” My child’s education worries me,” Vidales, who works at a senior care facility, said in Spanish. ![]() Stop Six resident Perla Vidales wants to be involved in her son’s education. ![]()
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