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 ...
Both El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso are among the nation’s top institutions for granting degrees to Latinos according to a recent research study. The report produced by Excelenia ...
The day after the César Chávez holiday, labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta sat down virtually to speak with El Paso Community Center students. “El Paso is one of my favorite places in the ...
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 ...
After three weeks of its network systems not fully being restored, the University of Texas at El Paso has yet to provide details about the “unauthorized and potentially malicious intrusion” that caused the networks to ...
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 ...
By Georgina C. Perez As a little girl living out of a duffel bag, schools were one of the few stable environments I could rely on. When I got older, the fact that there were ...
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 ...
We’re hosting forums for school board candidates in the El Paso and Socorro school districts that will air on PBS El Paso on April 16 and 18. What questions do you think we should ask ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniela would cross the border every day from her home in Ciudad Juárez to attend the University of Texas at El Paso. “It was a normal crossing. I only had to ...
The University of Texas at El Paso will have in-person commencement ceremonies in May, the first time the university has been able to do so since the pandemic struck in the spring of 2020. The ...
Christian Castro had a simple goal for his life: to “make people feel better.” Originally, he thought that goal could be achieved through comedy by making people laugh. “Laughter can make people forget their pain ...
By Diego Carlos, Kathy Staudt, and Aaron Waggoner Public education is one of America’s most enduring investments in itself, a keystone for our country’s development. In Texas, it was considered so essential that taxpayer funded, universally ...
A week after its computer networks appear to have been attacked, the University of Texas at El Paso is warning employees to stay off of campus computers as it struggles to bring systems back online. ...
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 ...
The University of Texas at El Paso’s computer systems have been disrupted since Friday by an “unauthorized and potentially malicious intrusion,” UTEP officials said. The intrusion forced the school to turn off servers for email ...
Last spring, Derek Hernandez sat his parents down and drew a two-column chart. On one side he listed what life would look like if he continued his education as a political science major at the ...
For almost 30 years, El Paso has not had a dedicated reporter to the topic of higher education. This means there has been an accumulating gray area as to what higher education means for El ...
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 ...
Three college students have joined the El Paso Matters team for the next several months to help tell the story of the El Paso region. Two of the students are from UTEP and one is ...
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 ...
Vince Sheffield’s focus since taking the helm of the county’s largest school district late last year has been how to get students and staff back into the classroom safely. Most El Paso Independent School District ...
The University of Texas at El Paso is one of just 17 higher education institutions nationwide to join a new $6.5 million NBCUniversal News Group initiative to diversify newsrooms. UTEP’s Department of Communication will receive ...
El Paso Independent School District trustees will use an executive search firm to help recruit and screen candidates for its next superintendent, keeping with district tradition and that of most large Texas school districts. The ...
Public education funding will be one of the major issues Texas lawmakers tackle during the 2021 legislative session, which starts Tuesday. The state faces a nearly $1 billion shortfall for the current two-year budget, which ...
Wednesday marks the start of the month-long candidate filing period for the May 1 school board elections in the El Paso, Ysleta and Socorro independent school districts. Four seats are up for election on each ...
Nine months into disruptions to education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, rural schools along the U.S.-Mexico border are seeing uneven impacts to student learning. “Before this, we used to have maybe one big assignment per ...
The next superintendent of the El Paso Independent School District will have a difficult task ahead. Whoever takes the helm of the city’s largest district will need to get students back on track after months ...
El Paso districts could lose millions of dollars next year if the Texas Education Agency starts funding them based on current attendance levels, which are far below those seen last school year. The TEA funded ...
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From the outside looking in, something is quite off in the economics of higher education. With some universities passing a year mark conducting classes partially or fully online, one would expect some form of a ...