The state can take control of a school district if at least one of its campuses receives a failing grade five years in a row.

Texas Education Agency released accountability scores that show positive progress among most of the state's 1,200 districts.

Commissioner Mike Morath praises progress but says Fort Worth ISD's future remains uncertain amid possible state intervention.

For Republicans, Vice President JD Vance leads the pack with 45 percent of the vote, followed by Texas Senator Ted Cruz with 9 percent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Secretary of State Marco Rubio with 6 percent apiece and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy with 5 percent. The poll shows 17 percent are undecided.

Former President Barack Obama praised a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers for fleeing their state to stop a vote on a redistricting bill. (Credit: Texas House Democrats)

The lawmakers have faced bomb threats, separation from their families and loss of income — as Republicans threaten another special session to push redistricting.

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in the middle of the decade to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses

A push by Texas Republicans and President Donald Trump to redraw congressional maps to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House has sparked a no-holds-barred battle between blue and red states, each threatening to redraw their own House districts.

California will forge ahead with a plan to redraw its congressional district maps in a bid to give Democrats five more US House seats, a drastic move intended to neutralize a similar President Trump-backed effort underway by Texas Republicans.