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 ...
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 ...
Voters living within the Ysleta school district boundaries won’t cast a ballot this spring to fill four seats on the seven-member school board. On Wednesday, the Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees canceled its ...
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 ...
The Ysleta Independent School District awarded Trustee Shane Haggerty’s company a roughly $40,000 contract this week to organize a virtual robotics and engineering competition. Though some school board members expressed concern about the optics of ...
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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