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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By Samuel Licón Kligman A year ago, I was enjoying those fading moments of summer before the start of a new school year. I was, like most of my friends, anxious and excited about the ...
By Roberto José Andrade Franco Ruben Salazar was born in Juárez and raised in El Paso. He graduated from El Paso High School and UTEP back when it was known as Texas Western College. During ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...