Despite classes resuming last month for the new academic school year, El Paso Community College is still working on bringing students back. “We saw excellent gains in enrollment (but) we’re not exactly where we want ...
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 ...
The number of children living in El Paso County declined by more than 20,000 between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau will be releasing more detailed age data later ...
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 ...
Instead of meeting his mom in the car pick-up line when Horizon Middle School let out Tuesday afternoon, Robert Beard waited for her in the cafeteria. The eighth-grader was there to get his second dose ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down — at least temporarily — San Antonio’s mask mandate for school districts and government buildings. The high court ruling has no impact on El Paso because the ...
In 2019, four college students from El Paso met at a Starbucks because they wanted to give back to their community, but weren’t sure how to do so. “We sat down and we started talking ...
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 ...
When Paulina del Pozo graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in industrial engineering, she knew she would have to leave her hometown in order to start her career. “I ...
El Paso Community College will require students and staff to follow local mask mandates and will enlist campus police to enforce the policy if necessary, officials said. The announcement was made by college President William ...
In an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 among its student body, the University of Texas at El Paso will provide financial compensation to students who get vaccinated. The effort begins next week and ...
El Paso’s two largest school districts will follow an indoor mask mandate from the county health authority, the El Paso and Socorro school boards decided Tuesday night. The El Paso Independent School District’s Board of ...
It has been a year since Derek Hernandez, a senior at the University of Texas at El Paso, paused his studies because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a nationwide transition to online classes. But ...
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 ...
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, ...
For almost 20 years, Professor Jeffrey Shepherd has been teaching history at the University of Texas at El Paso. As the chair of the department and a professor with a keen knowledge of Native American ...
By James K. Willcox/Consumer Reports Millions of Americans struggle to pay for fast internet service, or find that it’s not available where they live, a new Consumer Reports survey shows. The nationally representative survey of ...
When one first sees Didi Lopez walking or standing, it’s easy to assume she is not living with a disability. But after an hour, Lopez said, her walk starts to look different. “My disability isn’t ...
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 ...
El Paso native Abeni Merriweather has become the youngest composer for major music publishing company Carl Fischer Music Company. “Everyone that does music obviously knows who Carl Fischer is. … It’s one of the most ...
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 ...
Just weeks before Helen Bonds graduated from El Paso Community College, she was unsure if she’d be able to reach that milestone because she was short on money and had already exhausted her financial aid. ...
Conservative lawmakers wasted no time answering Gov. Greg Abbott’s call to enact further restrictions on how race is taught in relation to the nation’s history in public and charter school classrooms during a special session ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the agenda Wednesday for a special legislative session that includes measures concerning border security, transgender children in sports, critical race theory, medication abortion and more. Set to begin at 10:00 ...
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. ...
In March 2019, Michael Gutierrez was one of the nearly 60 students who stood outside the Union building on the University of Texas at El Paso campus to protest the appointment of then-UTEP president finalist ...
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