The University of Texas at El Paso has the highest percentage of Hispanic tenured faculty among the nation’s largest research universities, according to the most recent national data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. ...
A new classroom building at El Paso Community College’s Mission del Paso campus will provide students with increased learning space and resources to accommodate the anticipated growing population of East El Paso. The new building, ...
Teachers, parents, alumni and taxpayers won’t see an El Pasoan lead the county’s largest school district, though that was a top ask from the public at community input sessions held at high schools across El ...
The El Paso Independent School District named a new superintendent late Monday, despite calls for the school board to suspend its search after names of the finalists were leaked to the press and concerns emerged ...
An El Paso Independent School District trustee was hired earlier this year by a Central Texas superintendent who is now a finalist for the EPISD superintendent’s job. Trustee Leah Hanany does communications for the Marlin ...
At least one El Paso school district is resisting a state Republican lawmaker’s inquiry into whether library or classroom books in its inventory deal with race and gender. Socorro Independent School District officials declined to ...
For two years, Victor Hurtado studied and researched the Italian Doge’s Palace as an undergraduate art history major at the University of Texas at El Paso. And in the summer of 2018, he saw the ...
UPDATE 3:50 p.m. Nov. 4: El Paso Independent School District trustees selected seven of the 21 superintendent applicants for first-round interviews to be held Tuesday, Nov. 9. The names of those selected for interviews will ...
Where it once had the area’s highest student-teacher ratio for fifth grade classrooms, El Paso’s largest school district now has the lowest as a result of an influx of federal pandemic relief funds. The El ...
When Lori Edwards told her transgender teenage daughter that Texas’ House Bill 25 had passed, the 14-year-old turned away and started flipping through her phone. “Oh that sucks,” Emily said, and went silent. During the ...
Update 12:20 p.m., Oct. 26: This story has been updated with further comment from El Paso Independent School District. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quietly signed legislation on Monday that bans transgender children from participating in ...
The University of Texas at El Paso celebrated its former president, Diana Natalicio, in a Celebration of Life event on Sunday. The event included the release of 200 lanterns into the night sky and a ...
For the second year in a row, the University of Texas at El Paso has seen a decrease in enrollment after more than two decades of growth. Overall enrollment at UTEP dropped 3.5% — or ...
Texas lawmakers passed a bill this week that provides $3.3 billion to fund capital projects at several public universities and colleges, including the University of Texas at El Paso and Texas Tech University Health Sciences ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has approved a formal acknowledgement that recognizes that the campus resides on Indigenous lands. The official announcement is expected Monday, said Jeffrey Shepherd, a history professor at UTEP ...
Update Oct. 5, 3:30 p.m: This story was updated to reflect EPISD’s decision not to file a misdemeanor charge against the 17-year-old student who was arrested at Monday’s meeting. El Paso’s largest school district will ...
The same search firm that recently found the superintendent of Texas’ largest school district will lead the search for Socorro Independent School District’s next leader. Socorro trustees voted 7-0 during a special meeting Wednesday to ...
Diana Natalicio, the groundbreaking president at the University of Texas at El Paso for more than three decades, died on Friday, her family announced. She was 82. “My sister loved El Paso, and she chose ...
In the months after being hospitalized for COVID-19, Leonor Terrazas suffered headaches, joint pain and body chills. She was suddenly forgetful and struggled with balance. The long list of symptoms finally made sense when her ...
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 ...
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