Fort Worth ISD will serve free hot lunches to children at four campuses over Thanksgiving break

Fort Worth ISD will keep serving free hot lunches to children for the first three days of Thanksgiving week.

The district and Chartwells, the company that runs its food service, will serve meals from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 23, 24 and 25, the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the holiday week, according to the district's child nutrition page.

Four campuses, one or two per region, will serve:

North: Meadowbrook Middle School
South: Clifford Davis Elementary
Central: Daggett Middle School and Western Hills Elementary

The meals are free to anyone 18 or younger. The district's page says children must eat on site, so meals cannot be taken home, and adults cannot buy a meal.

The page does not list any service on Thanksgiving Day or the Friday after it. WFAA reported the program on Saturday.

The break

Students are out of class all week. The 2026-27 calendar the district adopted last December, as reported by the Fort Worth Report at the time, sets Thanksgiving break for Nov. 23-27. The next long break, winter break, runs Dec. 21 through Jan. 4, 2027, under the same calendar.

Sources

fwisd.org

fortworthreport.org

WFAA

Tarrant County certifies the Texas House District 93 result, leaving the fight over Ericka Lomick's eligibility to the House

Commissioners voted 3-0 Friday to accept the Nov. 3 canvass without ruling on whether the Democrat, who suspended her campaign but still won, can legally serve. Republican Alan Blaylock is pressing state officials to act.

Sasha EsparzaNovember 14, 20262 min read

Fort Worth

John Cornyn and Ted Cruz: How Your Senators Voted This Week

Senators Cornyn and Cruz cast their votes on the confirmation of Gregory Carl Cook to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Renata PenningtonNovember 14, 20262 min read

Fort Worth

Regional study puts flood losses west of Fort Worth near $2.3 billion over 50 years as open land gets paved

Preliminary NCTCOG findings for the Johnson, Hood, Parker and Tarrant county area project developed surfaces rising from 6.4% of the land in 2020 to 35.2% by 2070, and list more than 200 possible fixes.

Tessa WhitlockNovember 14, 20262 min read

Lawmakers from both parties in Fort Worth stand with Senfronia Thompson as she claims the votes for speaker

A Fort Worth Democrat was among Rep. Senfronia Thompson's early backers, and a Fort Worth Republican joined her Friday news conference.

Renata PenningtonNovember 9, 20261 min read

Texas

What House Bill 6 changed in Texas school discipline, from one-incident removals to longer in-school suspensions

The 2025 law lets teachers remove a student after a single incident, drops the time limit on in-school suspension, extends expulsion to off-campus offenses and bars TEA from penalizing districts over discipline counts.

Sasha EsparzaOctober 31, 20263 min read