Author: standforfortworth

Fort Worth, TX – Stand for Fort Worth supports the State of Texas and ten other states that have filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Education, Department of Justice, and Department of Labor in connection with President Obama’s transgender directive. Undoubtedly, this legal action by the State of Texas casts a dark cloud over the Fort Worth ISD transgender policy – a policy that nearly 80% of Fort Worth residents strongly object to.  Fort Worth ISD is the only school district out of nearly 1,270 school districts in Texas that has adopted such a transgender policy, and Superintendent Kent Scribner is the only Texas superintendent who has deceived parents and taxpayers in adopting such a policy.

Zeb Pent, spokesman for Stand for Fort Worth, said, “Superintendent Scribner’s continued defense of his unlawful transgender policy is increasingly belligerent. With 40% of Fort Worth ISD schools failing, the majority of Fort Worth residents are wondering what Superintendent Scribner is hiding by denying open records requests and why he continues to waste human and financial resources on this indefensible policy. If he doesn’t have the humility to admit this policy was a mistake by repealing it immediately, then how can we trust him to educate our kids?”

Fort Worth, TX – In an effort to understand why Superintendent Kent Scribner unilaterally issued the new Fort Worth ISD transgender policy without parent or taxpayer input, Stand for Fort Worth submitted an open records request on May 6, 2016 to the Fort Worth ISD for “any and all correspondence, drafts, memorandum, and other written and telephonic communications regarding and relating to the new Transgender Student Guidelines by and between any Board Members, Staff, Administration, Outside Consultants or activist groups.”  Stand for Fort Worth was disappointed – but not surprised – to recently receive a letter from the Fort Worth ISD refusing to provide any of the requested information and asking the Texas Attorney General to support the District’s position to withhold the information.  This has quickly become standard operating procedure for Superintendent Scribner’s administration.  While Fort Worth residents are asking tough questions of Superintendent Scribner, his administration continues to secretively hide its activities from public view.

Zeb Pent, spokesman for Stand for Fort Worth, said, “Fort Worth citizens deserve to know the truth.  If Superintendent Scribner and Fort Worth ISD Board members have nothing to hide, then they should promptly turn over any and all information about this divisive policy.  We have taken every effort as parents and taxpayers to find out why Superintendent Scribner created a mess in our community by imposing this unlawful transgender policy.  And Superintendent Scribner’s administration has deceived, denied, and delayed at every turn in the process.  Now, he is even obstructing the customary path for obtaining open records.”