Tag: Education
Students connecting but delays still plague Donna tower project
Several board trustees at the Donna Independent School District are growing increasingly frustrated with delays to its $3.7 Wi-Fi tower project, the cornerstone piece...
Flores named head of St. John’s school
McALLEN — St. John’s Episcopal Church & School named Sharon Flores its new permanent head of school earlier this week.
Flores has served as the...
Valley educators waste no time getting shot
Hundreds of Rio Grande Valley teachers were inoculated against COVID-19 last week in the wake of a federal directive to include school staff and...
STC holds forums on presidential search
McALLEN — South Texas College held a series of forums this week as a first step to kick off its search for a new...
Weslaco ISD assessing flood damage caused by freeze
WESLACO — The school district here is assessing damage to a building that was thoroughly flooded after a copper pipe broke during the February...
Salinas lays out challenges facing ECISD, possible solutions
EDINBURG — Mario Salinas officially took the helm at Edinburg CISD last week, in the middle of a record-smashing winter storm that crippled the...
Schools see failing grades rise during the pandemic
Rio Grande Valley schools are beginning to gauge the impact of almost a year’s worth of learning under COVID-19 protocols in the form of...
2 races on tap for McAllen school board election
McALLEN — Voters in the McAllen school board election will see two contested races on the ballot.
The final candidate to register, Lucia Regalado, will...
Pharr donates 500k to kickstart new scholarship foundation
PHARR — Pharr city officials kicked-off a new economic development foundation that is intended to help local students pay for school.
The Pharr Economic Development...
Sharyland to hold $35 million bond election
MISSION — In an effort to strike while the iron’s hot, Sharyland ISD trustees voted Thursday to call a $35 million bond election for...
