Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is offering COVID-19 booster shots to adults this weekend in an effort to use 1,200 Pfizer doses set to expire at the end of the month. People ...
El Paso school districts have been slow to decide whether they’ll offer full-time virtual learning now that state lawmakers guaranteed districts will receive state funding for it — making what otherwise would have been a ...
Correction: This story has been updated to clarify that the temporary injunction applies to Dr. Hector Ocaranza’s original county-wide indoor mask mandate. El Paso’s universal indoor face mask mandate can be reinstated, a judge ruled ...
A new firm was selected Thursday to lead the search for the El Paso Independent School District’s superintendent after the school board ended a previous contract last month. The EPISD Board of Trustees voted 6-1 ...
A divided Texas 8th Court of Appeals struck down much of El Paso’s indoor mask mandate Friday, but left it intact for schools and city buildings. Public school students, teachers and staff will continue to ...
The El Paso Independent School District is back to square one in its search for a permanent superintendent after the school board nixed the contract with the firm it hired months earlier to lead a ...
The state Capitol that three of El Paso’s House Democrats walked into Monday after a four-week absence wasn’t the same place they abruptly left last month. Relationships between Texas House Republicans and Democrats are strained ...
Updated 9:55 p.m. Aug. 10 The Socorro Independent School District school board took no vote Tuesday evening on a face mask policy, as other Texas districts push back against the governor’s order barring schools from ...
Three members of El Paso’s Texas House delegation returned to the Legislature on Monday, signaling Democrats’ efforts to deny a quorum to block controversial voting legislation is coming to an end. State Reps. Joe Moody, ...
El Paso public school students are back on campuses after months of virtual instruction, a return that coincided with a rise in coronavirus cases in El Paso. The delta variant is driving Texas’ case surge, ...
A former El Paso Independent School District superintendent who resigned abruptly last year amid a civil lawsuit did not disclose that his son worked for an investment advisory firm the district hired during his tenure, ...
State Rep. Joe Moody’s youngest son starts kindergarten Monday, but the El Paso Democrat won’t be there for that milestone. He’ll hear how the day went via an evening phone call from the Washington Plaza ...
Lourdes Delgado’s youngest grandchildren sat out pre-kindergarten and kindergarten last year because she worried she wouldn’t have the attention span to help them navigate virtual learning while also assisting the two oldest in her care ...
Details about the departure of a former school district police chief are being kept secret because his retirement letter could “constitute evidence of a potential crime pending detection and investigation” by local authorities. The Canutillo ...
Last week El Paso native Isabel Herrera asked a small group of Texas state senators in Austin to think critically about the implications of the legislation they had before them, Senate Bill 3. She was ...
El Paso’s highest-ranking state lawmaker was stripped of his leadership position in the Texas House Thursday, three days after he left Texas for Washington, D.C. in an effort to block the Texas Legislature from passing ...
Every member of the El Paso legislative delegation will join their Democratic colleagues in Washington, D.C., in an effort to stop Republican state lawmakers from passing restrictive voting legislation during the special session. State Reps. Joe ...
TORNILLO — In the first Texas-based binational effort to vaccinate Mexican workers from U.S.-owned companies, more than 1,400 Juárez factory workers were vaccinated against coronavirus with unused Texas vaccines Tuesday. The launch of a cross-border ...
On the eve of the Texas governor’s June 30 visit to the Rio Grande Valley, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz gave Fox News viewers a lesson in the state’s massive geography. El Paso, he said, where ...
The percentage of El Paso students who failed this spring’s state standardized math exams nearly tripled — a severe decline the state’s top education official attributes to the region’s decision to delay offering on-campus instruction. ...
The selection of El Paso Independent School District’s new board president was the only unanimous decision trustees reached June 15 when they chose new officers. The seven-member body all backed Al Velarde, who also cast ...
El Paso area high school students performed significantly worse on this spring’s state standardized math exam, the first indication of the extent of pandemic learning loss in public education. The percentage of first-time test takers ...
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 ...
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