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TEA looking for board of managers candidates for potential La Joya ISD takeover

The Texas Education Agency on Wednesday posted candidate applications for a board of managers at La Joya ISD, moving the district closer to state intervention that it plans to oppose.

Edinburg school board to discuss possible settlement proposals in payroll fiasco

Edinburg school board trustees will discuss Tuesday advice from legal counsel and possible settlement proposals related to Zelda Martinez and Margarita Oyervides, directors whom a Texas Education Agency hearing officer sided with earlier this month in a recommendation related to an extra payment dispute.

La Joya school board to resist state interventions

Politics flared explosively at a La Joya school board meeting Monday night before trustees voted 4-3 to oppose the Texas Education Agency’s recommendation to install a board of managers at the district following rampant corruption.

Parents, students, educators invited to chime in at TEA forum in Edinburg

Region One ESC will host Wednesday a Texas Education Agency community forum on career and technical education forums and initiatives.

Progreso school district now free from longtime state oversight

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Progreso school district is no longer being overseen by a Texas Education Agency conservator.

TEA removes Donna school district conservator appointed after 2017 bribery scandal

The Donna school district on Friday received news from the Texas Education Agency that the state is ending its conservatorship for the district, ending a five-year period of agency oversight.

Panic buttons, locked doors could be required in Texas schools

Meghan Mangrum The Dallas Morning News (TNS) DALLAS — Texas schools would need silent panic buttons in classrooms and two-way emergency radios on campus under...

Donna ISD may be TEA-free by December

Donna ISD could soon find itself free from Texas Education Agency oversight as soon as December.

Top state court declines to hold up ban on mask mandates

Staff and Wire Reports The Texas Supreme Court declined Thursday to block restraining orders against Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask mandate ban. The justices remanded Attorney General...

Texas schools must notify families of positive COVID-19 cases in classrooms

By Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune Texas school districts must now notify teachers, staff and students’ families of positive COVID-19 cases in classrooms or extracurricular...