El Paso school districts have been slow to decide whether they’ll offer full-time virtual learning now that state lawmakers guaranteed districts will receive state funding for it — making what otherwise would have been a ...
El Paso’s two largest school districts will follow an indoor mask mandate from the county health authority, the El Paso and Socorro school boards decided Tuesday night. The El Paso Independent School District’s Board of ...
Lourdes Delgado’s youngest grandchildren sat out pre-kindergarten and kindergarten last year because she worried she wouldn’t have the attention span to help them navigate virtual learning while also assisting the two oldest in her care ...
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 ...
On Thursday Aug. 13, El Paso Matters held a conversation with some of our public school superintendents, administrators, teachers and parents. El Paso Matters CEO Robert Moore moderated a conversation with Socorro Independent School District ...
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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, ...