El Paso area high school students performed significantly worse on this spring’s state standardized math exam, the first indication of the extent of pandemic learning loss in public education. The percentage of first-time test takers ...
Texas’ 2021 regular legislative session ended last month with lawmakers doing something education advocates initially feared wouldn’t happen: they passed a budget that kept the previous session’s funding gains in place.1 That sums up how ...
El Paso’s two largest districts are without a permanent superintendent heading into next school year, when thousands of students will return to campuses, many for the first time since March 2020. The El Paso Independent ...
Next month, Texas Tech University Heath Sciences Center will welcome its inaugural class into the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine. The dental school will be the first of its kind in a border ...
As she prepared for her junior year as a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin, Carolina Mendez’s life was forever altered on July 3, 2019, when her father was diagnosed with pancreatic ...
After being just shy of avoiding a runoff last month, Israel Irrobali comfortably won the race Saturday for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. He received 62% ...
Juan Cabrera fired off a quick, two-line email last April, hours before the work week wrapped up. “We are official!!! Signed on page 22. Any other page?” It was 2:23 p.m. MST Friday, April 24, ...
9:55 a.m., Friday, May 28: This story has been updated with comment from former Superintendent Juan Cabrera. An internal audit released Thursday found “an appearance of conflict of interest” between former El Paso Independent School ...
12:37 p.m. June 3: This story has been updated with details from Marta Carmona’s supplemental contract. The Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees named Internal Auditor Marta Carmona interim superintendent this week. The district’s ...
More than 90 medical school students are one step closer to donning their white doctor coats after graduating from Texas Tech University of Health and Science Center on Friday at the Plaza Theatre. The in-person ...
Northeast El Paso residents have a second opportunity to vote for their representative for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. Candidates Cordia “Vanessa” Betts and Israel Irrobali ...
The only thing that interrupted the sounds of laughter on Saturday in the Almaguer backyard was the sizzle of a grill and the sound of music as relatives and friends celebrated a family milestone. Victoria ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad Heriberto Pérez Lara sat on the bed in his home in Juárez, meticulously lacing his brown dress shoes. His mother, Anayensi Lara Ruíz, smoothed an ironed white ...
In a celebration unique to El Paso’s border culture and the University of Texas at El Paso, more than 8,000 college graduates last week marked the school’s first in-person commencement since 2019 and the first ...
More than 70 El Paso Community College graduates were welcomed into the nursing profession Thursday during a rite-of-passage ceremony that dates back to the 19th century. The event, called a pinning ceremony, is an internationally ...
The University of Texas at El Paso graduation ceremony is only a couple of days away and senior Sydney Nixon doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life after she walks across the ...
Updated at 9:55 p.m. May 12 with information from Wednesday’s board meeting: The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees directed their internal auditor Wednesday to investigate other district contracts after “concerns” came up ...
Two top El Paso ISD administrators were put on leave Monday, two days before the board meets to discuss an internal audit. El Paso Independent School District Deputy Superintendent of Finance and Operations Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria ...
After more than a year of remote learning and virtual or long-distance celebrations, most El Paso higher education graduates and their families are preparing to honor the students’ achievements with traditional, in-person festivities this month. ...
Updated 11:53 a.m. May 6 with additional details about the separation agreement The Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees agreed to buy out Superintendent José Espinoza’s contract Wednesday evening, ending his nine-year tenure leading ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has reached an agreement with Customs and Border Protection to allow parents of spring and summer graduates to cross the Juarez border so they can attend in-person commencement ...
When Miguel Venegas graduated from UTEP in December 2020 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he knew he was entering a job market as the world was grappling with a world-wide pandemic. But he was ...
One El Paso ISD school board incumbent was defeated Saturday and another re-elected. District 3 incumbent Josh Acevedo was re-elected to a spot on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees while District ...
Are you a first generation student graduating in the spring 2021 classes from University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Community College or Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso? As we prepare ...
By Eddie Rodriguez Before the COVID-19 pandemic brought our nation to a halt, Texas was on the verge of making transformative changes to our public education system. State lawmakers had just passed school funding reform, ...
At the height of the fall coronavirus case surge, a now-candidate seeking to represent Central El Paso families on the EPISD school board called into question the efficacy of face masks. “The masks are not ...
For the first time in her life, Giselle Paredes needs help feeding her family. “Many times I don’t have something to cook so I’m like, ‘what am I going to do?’” Paredes said. “They’re hungry ...
Four seats are up for grabs on both the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees. Trustees play an important role in school districts. They ...
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 ...
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