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 ...
Jewél Jackson, whose investigation showed that her hometown police department in Louisville was using thermal imaging to detect marijuana cultivation, will join El Paso Matters in February as a reporter covering higher education. Jackson has ...
The Ysleta Independent School District awarded Trustee Shane Haggerty’s company a roughly $40,000 contract this week to organize a virtual robotics and engineering competition. Though some school board members expressed concern about the optics of ...
Tristan Hernandez last attended a Canutillo school board meeting as a high school senior in 2018 to accept a college scholarship from the district’s alumni group. On Tuesday, the 20-year-old University of Texas at El ...
Jose López, the chief of staff to former Superintendent Juan Cabrera, resigned from the El Paso Independent School District Monday, a month after his boss tendered his own resignation. López’s resignation is effective Feb. 16, ...
Since accepting Juan Cabrera’s resignation last month, the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees has yet to set a time frame for finding a permanent superintendent. In determining what the search process will ...
El Paso Matters is one of 64 local news organizations nationwide selected to host a Report for America corps member for the next two years. The journalist hired for the position will report on issues ...
Fewer El Paso high school seniors are applying for federal financial aid this fall as college planning takes a back seat to more pressing pandemic issues. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, ...
El Paso Independent School District’s interim superintendent will be paid more than $300,000 annually under a contract unanimously approved by the school board this week. The board appointed Vince Sheffield interim superintendent Nov. 5, following ...
Juan Cabrera wasn’t the only El Paso Independent School District employee to help former school board president Dori Fenenbock launch an online school last year. She also turned to José López, the superintendent’s chief of ...
Juan Cabrera’s seven-year tenure helming the El Paso Independent School District came to an abrupt end when the school board unanimously approved his resignation Thursday. Cabrera, who was hired in September 2013, had more than ...
Superintendent Juan Cabrera’s tenure at El Paso Independent School District appears to be nearing its end, with the school board meeting Thursday afternoon to discuss a “voluntary separation agreement.” The meeting comes after the board ...
The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees narrowly voted Friday to authorize their outside legal counsel “to follow up on” a nearly three-hour discussion behind closed doors “in consultation” with board Vice President ...
The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees will weigh Friday whether to seek an independent investigation into the superintendent’s work with the former board president’s virtual school venture. Friday’s special board meeting comes ...
In an email to friends on Saturday, former El Paso Independent School District board President Dori Fenenbock defended herself against allegations that she engaged in fraud in a California investment deal for her online charter ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Damaris Duran models how to solve an algebraic equation, drawing directly on a large screen at the front of her classroom. She adjusts her microphone headset as she walks her eighth-grade students ...
The superintendent of El Paso’s largest school district and a former board president have been sued in California over allegations they defrauded a group of charter school investors. El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Juan ...
An El Paso education advocacy organization wants to cultivate a network of parents who have the knowledge and skills to push for improvements in area schools. A $250,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation allowed ...
Molly Smith, an experienced reporter on the U.S.-Mexico border, has joined El Paso Matters, where she will focus on education coverage. “I’m excited to explore how state decisions affect education along the border, as well ...
This story has been updated with age data through Sept. 30. Children are making up an increasing proportion of new COVID-19 cases as El Paso County sees a second wave of novel coronavirus infections. Almost ...
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 ...
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By Clifton Tanabe, Ph.D., J.D. The disruption to our education system caused by COVID-19 has been a historic challenge for the El Paso community. We have witnessed dedicated educators rise to meet this challenge, and ...