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 ...
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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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 ...