Education
Swimmer's Dream
A few weeks ago, Monica Rosales was standing on the deck of the Margaret M. Clark Aquatic Center pool when it dawned on her she was living out Clark's dream for Brownsville's schoolchildren. "I had finally gotten the second-grade swimming program organized...
BISD: Vandals cause up to $100K in damages at Vermillion Elementary
Brownsville school officials says vandals broke into Vermillion Elementary over the weekend and caused extensive damage to nearly the entire campus. According to a press release, every classroom in the school suffered significant damage including broken...
Group proposes skills-based school accountability system
The standard for high school graduation should be readiness for skilled employment or college -without the need for remediation - a coalition of business and research groups says. The Texas Coalition for a Competitive Workforce, headed by the...
Waiver of SAP standards raises questions
UTB-TSC administrators and faculty are divided over whether the decision to waive academic standards for its dual enrollment program is in the best interest of students. The dual enrollment task force, formed last year to improve academic oversight for...
Competition heats up for Broad Prize scholarships
Across Brownsville, competition has begun for $1 million in Broad Prize scholarships, which for some winners could make the difference between going to college and not. Potentially, any of 2,366 seniors at the Brownsville Independent School District's...
Santa Rosa faculty members get axed
SANTA ROSA - The school board late Tuesday fired six faculty members, including the directors of secondary and elementary, in a move that will cut about $300,000 from an $800,000 shortfall.In a 4-2 vote, school board members fired Andres Contreras,...
NASA Bound: UTB-TSC student pursuing career in computer robotics
Plenty of people are intrigued by remote-controlled model cars. But not many can parlay their interest into a career in computer robotics for NASA. Heriberto Reynoso intends to. And he's well on his way. "Computer...
Strength in Numbers
AUSTIN - Indeed the Rio Grande Valley sticks together. As businesswoman Val Peisen started to give her presentation on the need for a rotation of Region IV athletic and academic tournaments to include the Valley, she asked all Valley supporters to stand...
2008 Region 28 Pigskin Jubilee Results
2008 Region 28 UIL Pigskin Julbille ratings: 1ASanta Maria-DNA 2ASanta Rosa-2 3AProgresso-2Port Isabel-1La Feria-2Raymondville-2Rio Hondo-1Lyford-3 4AWeslaco East-1Edcouch-Elsa-1Mercedes-2 5ALopez-1Porter-2Harlingen South-1Weslaco-1Hanna-1Los Fresnos-2Donna-1Pace-1San...
BISD the toast of the educational community
Suddenly, the whole country is interested in the Brownsville Independent School District. And not for the usual reasons. On Tuesday, BISD won the coveted Broad Prize for Urban Education, securing $1 million in scholarships for its graduating seniors...
Celebration must wait
Bad weather in Houston forced the Brownsville Independent School District to postpone the victory party Wednesday afternoon, but couldn't dampen the district's spirits one day after winning the nation's top education prize. With the plane carrying Superintendent...
$1 Million to one
Euphoria broke out across the Brownsville Independent School District Tuesday morning as word spread that BISD had won the richest and most prestigious education prize in America. Winning the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Education secured $1 million in...
BISD wins $1 million scholarship prize
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - One of the nation's poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for making academic advances. The...
Keys to college: Brownsville Early College High School students to graduate with diploma, two years of college credit
There was a sense of coming home Thursday as BISD and The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College celebrated the opening of Brownsville Early College High School. As educators applauded the school's first cohort of students, the...
PSJA High may be taken over by state
PHARR -- Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School got a last-minute reprieve of a sort Tuesday afternoon. The PSJA school district had been waiting for the Texas Education Agency to release preliminary results of the school's Adequate Yearly Progress assessment,...
BISD recognized for school board excellence
The Brownsville Independent School District has won the 5th CUBE Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence. The award recognizes school districts that demonstrate progress in educating children and serve as role models for excellence in school board...
Jeff Corwin addresses conservation during Distinguished Speaker series
EDINBURG - Times are tough for ecological systems throughout the world. Animals including frogs and birds are disappearing from their habitats and extinction rates today are matched only by extinction rates in the time of the dinosaurs, said wildlife...
Texas A&M expands offer of free tuition
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Texas A&M University has sweetened its offer of free tuition for middle-income families. The university said Monday this year's freshmen from families with incomes of $60,000 or less would be eligible for free tuition,...
HESTEC opens with T. rex display
EDINBURG - The response from everyone was the same: Sue is awesome. The 42-foot long, 12-foot high fossil replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex grabbed the attention from teachers and community members attending the first day of the Hispanic Engineering, Science...
BISD breaks ground on two new schools
Thomas W. Keller was there Thursday morning, and so was Edward Manzano Jr., as the Brownsville Independent School District ceremonially began construction on schools named in their honor in fast-growing northwest Brownsville. Thomas W. Keller Elementary...
Historic Framework: Constitution Day pays tribute to founding document of U.S. government
Events Wednesday at the Brownsville Events Center and at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College will pay tribute to the U.S. Constitution, which was signed on Sept. 17, 1787. A naturalization ceremony and observance...
House Fellows: Hanna teacher gets inside look at how Congress governs
Alma I. Ortiz will never forget the week she spent last summer rubbing elbows with the nation's lawmakers in the halls of Congress. The government and economics teacher from Hanna High School was part of a select group of nine educators from...
Sherman among teaching ambassadors
Among summer fellowships that went to teachers around the Brownsville Independent School District, Hanna High School world history teacher Scott Sherman was one of 25 teachers selected for a Teaching Ambassador Fellowship position with the U.S. Department...
Hanna teacher gets inside look at how Congress governs
Alma I. Ortiz will never forget the week she spent last summer rubbing elbows with the nation's lawmakers in the halls of Congress. The government and economics teacher from Hanna High School was part of a select group of nine educators from...
TECH-ING
Students can now go to class, without actually being in class. Tegrity is a computer software that the Distance Education and Instructional Technologies Department at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College is trying...
Community leaders say farewell to TSTC’s Leal
HARLINGEN - Casa Del Sol was the scene of an emotional farewell Thursday. But it was a good one none the less.Community leaders including Mayor Chris Boswell, former mayors, school board members, business owners and at least 200 others gathered to bid...
Building Lives
At the Campo Real subdivision north of Brownsville, recent high school dropouts are building affordable housing for low-income buyers through the Community Development Corp. of Brownsville and its YouthBuild program. In the process, they're learning...
College presidents spark debate on drinking age
The college presidents said they wanted a national debate on the 21-year-old drinking age. They got it. For years, former Middlebury College President John McCardell has been criticizing the law, saying it only encourages binge drinking and pushes alcohol...
Early Start: Prayer, Christian values set St. Mary's apart
By now, students and staff at St. Mary's Catholic School are already halfway through the second week of the 2008-2009 school year, starting earlier than most other schools in the Rio Grande Valley. "We start at this time to finish off the year...
McAllen school district celebrates 100th birthday with back to school assembly
McALLEN - The McAllen school district began in a one-room schoolhouse on the corner of 12th Street and Austin Avenue in 1908. One teacher educated 20 children of all ages who traveled on foot, many without shoes. "For many of them it was a very long...
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