el paso schools

Students who are paying up to $30,000 for a nursing degree from a local college might be out the money they’ve paid, and out the nursing degree they’ve been working so hard to achieve.

Is the El Paso Independent School District going to consolidate two of the oldest high schools in the city? Officials with EPISD say no, but at a meeting last night, they had a hard time convincing Bowie and Jefferson high school parents of that.

Bullying used to mean you got pushed up against a wall by a thuggy kid on the playground who then stole your lunch money.  But social media has taken bullying to a horrible new level, and El Dorado High School students say it has to stop.

So, all the kiddoes are back in school, but that doesn't mean they are the only ones teachers want to school.  Teachers called into the show this week to tell us what lessons they want parents to learn.

Mike and Tricia Morning Show listeners came through big time during our Stuff the Bus school supply drive.  From the change in people's ashtrays we collected at the various drop-off sites last week, to the hundred dollar bills that were dropped in the donation jar at L&J during our live broadcast on Friday morning, we couldn't have collected over 6 thousand dollars in cash and school supplies

Earlier this morning, Mike and I were talking about what experts say you should say to your kids about scary news events like yesterday's Boston Marathon bombings, and it brought up something I did on 9/11 when my kids were still young....

Tomorrow marks a week since 20 children and 6 adults were gunned down in an elementary school in Connecticut.  That tragic day has the schools in the nation on high alert, and El Paso schools are no different.

For those of you who don't know why the Texas Education Agency is telling the El Paso Independant School District what to do, it's because the district's former superintendant Lorenzo Garcia cooked up a scheme to lie about TAKS test scores and cheat some kids out of not only taking the TAKS test, but an education altogether.  Ok, now that you know the background, here is the latest...