Sam Ingram had someone unexpected teaching his sixth grade math class last week: Morehead Middle School’s assistant principal was filling in for the absent teacher. El Paso schools are short teachers and substitutes as rising ...
When Socorro trustees last selected a superintendent in 2012, they took an uncommon approach and announced three finalists who were put through public interviews. Now, a decade later, the school board is poised to take ...
The same search firm that recently found the superintendent of Texas’ largest school district will lead the search for Socorro Independent School District’s next leader. Socorro trustees voted 7-0 during a special meeting Wednesday to ...
In the months after being hospitalized for COVID-19, Leonor Terrazas suffered headaches, joint pain and body chills. She was suddenly forgetful and struggled with balance. The long list of symptoms finally made sense when her ...
Updated 9:55 p.m. Aug. 10 The Socorro Independent School District school board took no vote Tuesday evening on a face mask policy, as other Texas districts push back against the governor’s order barring schools from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...