Children are making up an increasing proportion of new COVID-19 cases as El Paso County sees a second wave of novel coronavirus infections. More than one in six new COVID-19 cases this month have been ...
El Paso Matters is seeking a higher education reporter to join our diverse and innovative team of journalists covering the El Paso border region. This reporting position — a one-year position that we hope to ...
Yisrael Greenberg came to El Paso in August 1986 with his wife Chana and newborn son Levi as an emissary of Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish movement with no history in the community. To say this ...
Story by Corrie Boudreaux and Angela Kocherga for El Paso Matters CIUDAD JUAREZ – As the first day of classes neared, violinist Rodrigo Cardona Cabrera was filled with anticipation. After years of hard work and ...
On Thursday Aug. 13, El Paso Matters held a conversation with some of our public school superintendents, administrators, teachers and parents. El Paso Matters CEO Robert Moore moderated a conversation with Socorro Independent School District ...
FORT HANCOCK, Texas — Rural schools along the U.S.-Mexico border face challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic that are common to small, isolated districts across the United States — broadband access and other digital divide issues, ...
Krista Brooker has been wondering if she needs to find a new job. As a clinical supervisor, Brooker has asked her employer if she can bring her kids — one in elementary school and the ...
By Samuel Licón Kligman A year ago, I was enjoying those fading moments of summer before the start of a new school year. I was, like most of my friends, anxious and excited about the ...
Ross Moore, president of the El Paso chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, sent an email to members last week with the subject line, “Back to School Checklist.” Instead of new updates from districts ...
By William Serrata, Ph.D. Like community colleges across the country, El Paso Community College creates value both for students and the community. Community colleges play a vital role in helping students develop the skills necessary ...
By Roberto José Andrade Franco Ruben Salazar was born in Juárez and raised in El Paso. He graduated from El Paso High School and UTEP back when it was known as Texas Western College. During ...
Students and instructors who are involved with El Paso-area career and technical education courses have had to change their approaches to course work in light of schools and laboratories dealing with COVID-19 restrictions. Career and ...
By Marcos Muñoz On Sept. 6, 1949, Jefferson High School was opened as a response to community demand for a second high school in South-Central El Paso to alleviate overcrowding at Bowie. More than 70 ...
Young LGBTQ+ El Pasoans have mobilized around the creation of the Trans-Youth Coalition, a project offering free and low cost resources to young transgender people in need. Seeking to address gender dysphoria and combat the ...
For the next two weeks, El Paso Matters is offering a unique celebration of El Paso high school students in the Class of 2020. These students have persevered under unimaginable circumstances. Their senior year began ...
By Xavier Miranda The pandemic has revealed how corporate influence on our education system has sorely failed our students. Rather than relying on the expertise of educators, who best know the individual needs of our ...
By Anneliese Huenneke/El Paso High School Something that is instilled in students from the moment they enter kindergarten is our high school graduation. For some students, this is the only ceremony they will get to ...
Be flexible, be forgiving, be patient, and when all else fails – forget it and try again tomorrow. That’s the universal advice that teachers and parents have shared with one another as they began navigating ...
El Paso’s Department of Public Health has implemented new restrictions effective Saturday in line with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order earlier in the week. The United States and Mexico limited who will be allowed ...
El Paso school children are on spring break this week. The city’s Department of Public Health has ordered that no children be allowed to return to school until at least April 6. Children and school ...
A 10-month investigation by El Paso Matters shows that UTEP was slow to answer Olivas’ concerns and those responses were incomplete and inaccurate at times. The investigation found that errors by the university’s Office of ...
The number of El Paso County children enrolling in kindergarten through second grade has dropped precipitously in the last seven years, further evidence that El Paso’s once-robust population growth has stalled. El Paso County schools ...
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Graduation Video Special: Notable El Pasoans and Juarenses salute our community graduates
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Back to school is always a time filled with excitement, the dawn of the new school year turning a new page and signalling endless possibilities. While in that sense this year ...