Tag: Brownsville ISD (BISD)

Defensive Player of the Year: LB Jaime Martinez, Brownsville Veterans The Brownsville Veterans Memorial senior middle linebacker imposed his will on opposing offenses all season. The...

BROWNSVILLE — A large chunk of the core that made up Brownsville Veterans Memorial’s Class 5A DI state semifinal run signed to continue playing...

Marisa F. Leal has drawn the top spot on a May 4 special election ballot to determine the true winner of her disputed race in 2020 with Minerva M. Pena that went all the way to the Texas Supreme Court.

The Brownsville Independent School District began work on its 2024-2025 budget at a Saturday morning workshop that sought everyone’s help to offset the impact of reduced state funding and still improve classroom instruction.

Thanks to the standoff at the Legislature between vouchers and school funding, and multiple related factors, the Brownsville Independent School District faces a best-case scenario $16 million deficit even before it begins drafting next year’s budget.

Just a couple days after the 2024 tax-filing season began, a few pioneers of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program at Porter Early College High School were recognized in an event Wednesday afternoon in the Porter auditorium.

The research and child advocacy nonprofit Children at Risk reported improvement among public schools in the Rio Grande Valley for the 2022-2023 school year, but also pointed out troubling trends.

The Veterans Memorial Early College High School Varsity Tenor-Bass Choir is putting the final touches on an invited performance at the 2024 Texas Music Educators convention set for Feb. 9 in San Antonio.

Children in the Rio Grande Valley and the rest of the state are being left out of a new federal program aimed at helping address food insecurity during the summer break.

About 20 people including parents, a former librarian and other Brownsville Independent School District teachers and staff attended the first of three community round tables on Tuesday to guide the selection of a new superintendent of schools.