Fort Worth ISD is budgeting $11.7 million in federal funds to hire more than 100 Family Engagement Specialists. The district will provide extensive professional development for these specialists to support campuses and families in areas such as attendance monitoring, ensuring a welcoming school environment, volunteer organizing, social media management, social-emotional learning support, crisis intervention, parent advocacy, site-based decision making, and understanding assessment data.
We are spotlighting this because the use of recovery funding to encourage and support family engagement on mission-critical work indicates that the district is leveraging new, external resources in service of student needs.
