Claudia Silva

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Claudia Silva |Robert Moore

The Socorro Independent School District is planning to lay off employees, increase class sizes and cut programs in an effort to save itself from financial ruin. SISD employees late Friday received an email from Acting Superintendent James Vasquez informing them the district needs to reduce its budget by $38 million for the 2025-26 school year and will need to cut staff to do so. “We are currently working to identify exactly how many employees will be impacted.

2 months ago | elpasotimes.com | Claudia Silva |Robert Moore

The Socorro Independent School District is planning to lay off employees, increase class sizes and cut programs in an effort to save itself from financial ruin. SISD employees late Friday received an email from Acting Superintendent James Vasquez informing them the district needs to reduce its budget by $38 million for the 2025-26 school year and will need to cut staff to do so. “We are currently working to identify exactly how many employees will be impacted.

Dec 10, 2024 | elpasotimes.com | Claudia Silva

While some 103,000 homeowners in the Socorro Independent School District will get a tax refund of about $25 after being overcharged by the district last year, another 13,000 will get a $10 bill. That’s because some homeowners older than 65 with tax exemptions were undercharged during the 2023 tax year, said Andrew Kim, who was appointed by the Texas Education Agency to serve as a conservator of the troubled district.

Oct 14, 2024 | kvia.com | Tony Gutierrez |Claudia Silva

by Claudia Lorena SilvaOctober 14, 2024The El Paso Independent School District postponed its plans to announce which elementary schools might close until Thursday. The announcement was initially scheduled during the district’s regular school board meeting on Tuesday evening. District officials posted a notice Monday that that meeting was canceled, but haven’t said why.

Oct 1, 2024 | kvia.com | Claudia Silva

By Claudia Lorena SilvaOctober 1, 2024Ten candidates are facing off in the Nov. 5 election for four of the seven at-large seats on the Canutillo Independent School District Board of Trustees. The election comes as the district deals with an ongoing budget deficit while preparing to begin work on projects under the $379 million bond approved by voters in May to replace some of its aging facilities with new schools.