Texas’ 2021 regular legislative session ended last month with lawmakers doing something education advocates initially feared wouldn’t happen: they passed a budget that kept the previous session’s funding gains in place.1 That sums up how ...
El Paso’s two largest districts are without a permanent superintendent heading into next school year, when thousands of students will return to campuses, many for the first time since March 2020. The El Paso Independent ...
After being just shy of avoiding a runoff last month, Israel Irrobali comfortably won the race Saturday for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. He received 62% ...
Juan Cabrera fired off a quick, two-line email last April, hours before the work week wrapped up. “We are official!!! Signed on page 22. Any other page?” It was 2:23 p.m. MST Friday, April 24, ...
9:55 a.m., Friday, May 28: This story has been updated with comment from former Superintendent Juan Cabrera. An internal audit released Thursday found “an appearance of conflict of interest” between former El Paso Independent School ...
12:37 p.m. June 3: This story has been updated with details from Marta Carmona’s supplemental contract. The Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees named Internal Auditor Marta Carmona interim superintendent this week. The district’s ...
Northeast El Paso residents have a second opportunity to vote for their representative for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. Candidates Cordia “Vanessa” Betts and Israel Irrobali ...
Updated 5:27 p.m. May 17: Revised with additional information The number of younger Texans now able to get the COVID-19 vaccine continues to grow after state health officials announced children 12 or older are eligible ...
Updated at 9:55 p.m. May 12 with information from Wednesday’s board meeting: The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees directed their internal auditor Wednesday to investigate other district contracts after “concerns” came up ...
Two top El Paso ISD administrators were put on leave Monday, two days before the board meets to discuss an internal audit. El Paso Independent School District Deputy Superintendent of Finance and Operations Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria ...
Updated 11:53 a.m. May 6 with additional details about the separation agreement The Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees agreed to buy out Superintendent José Espinoza’s contract Wednesday evening, ending his nine-year tenure leading ...
One El Paso ISD school board incumbent was defeated Saturday and another re-elected. District 3 incumbent Josh Acevedo was re-elected to a spot on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees while District ...
El Paso shifted in recent days to something unthinkable just weeks earlier: wait lists are no more and people can visit a walk-up COVID-19 vaccination site. There are more shots than people wanting to get ...
At the height of the fall coronavirus case surge, a now-candidate seeking to represent Central El Paso families on the EPISD school board called into question the efficacy of face masks. “The masks are not ...
Four seats are up for grabs on both the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees. Trustees play an important role in school districts. They ...
When schools in McAllen moved online last spring, it became harder for Tiffany Torres-Gonzalez to attend class, even though her bedroom was now her classroom. She didn’t have internet at home and a district-issued mobile ...
Since January, $61,000 in campaign contributions has flowed into the El Paso and Socorro school board races, finance reports filed last week show. More than half of that funding comes from special interest groups rather ...
The search for the El Paso Independent School District’s next superintendent is officially underway. On Tuesday, the EPISD Board of Trustees selected Texas Association of School Boards’ Executive Search Services to lead the search for ...
El Paso and Socorro independent school districts each have four school board seats up for grabs this spring. El Pasoans wanting to participate in the May 1 election have until Thursday, April 1 to register ...
When Mexico’s president traveled to the White House last summer, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar urged President Donald Trump to put discussion of a binational coronavirus response plan at the top of the agenda. But that ...
Nearly a third of El Pasoans surveyed have coronavirus antibodies, according to preliminary study results released Monday — the highest rate of the six parts of the state studied. Twenty-nine percent of residents surveyed in ...
Voters living within the Ysleta school district boundaries won’t cast a ballot this spring to fill four seats on the seven-member school board. On Wednesday, the Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees canceled its ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 vaccination effort is marked by glaring inequality, with about one in five first vaccines going to people in wealthier West El Paso ZIP codes, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of ...
Close to 113,000 El Pasoans have received their first shot in the 10 weeks since COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Texas, something El Paso leaders have celebrated. “While we’re still a long way from herd immunity, ...
El Paso Independent School District trustees on Tuesday narrowly rejected a move to switch school board elections from majority to plurality vote. The change would have done away with runoff elections, which trustees Daniel Call ...
Close to 100,000 El Pasoans have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and most will soon be due for their second shot. A recent change in the city’s scheduling process has created confusion ...
University Medical Center has refused to release demographic data of those it has vaccinated against COVID-19, making it impossible for the public to know whether the county-owned hospital is protecting El Paso’s most vulnerable residents. ...
South El Paso residents may get a knock on the door from Beto O’Rourke Saturday. The former El Paso congressman is one of dozens of volunteers who will canvas the city’s 79901 ZIP code to ...
Thousands of students are back on El Paso campuses Monday after state waivers delaying their return expired. The Ysleta and Canutillo districts reopened classrooms Monday to all students who want to receive in-person instruction, something ...
The race and ethnicity of 90.6% of the people inoculated in El Paso County is unknown to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the state agency tasked with distributing the COVID-19 vaccine. The lack ...
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