
Lina Ruiz
Reporter at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Florida woman beating the heat in Texas while covering early childhood for @startelegram | @UFJSchool alumna | Send TikToks & tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Lina Ruiz
Literacy coordinator Monique Ervin explained the link between family time and learning time to a Fort Worth Independent School District parent, who listened intently as she learned techniques to help her daughter improve her early reading skills at home. The parent, Arlene Olvera, asked Ervin specifically for help with her kindergarten-age daughter’s blending, or merging individual sounds of a word together to read it.
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2 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Lina Ruiz
READ MORE Tarrant County faces a moderate to high likelihood of a measles outbreak. Here’s why we may be more vulnerable. Expand All As the West Texas measles outbreak has found its way to Tarrant County, Fort Worth-area school districts are implementing preparedness plans on what to do if an infected student shows up to school. Exposed students who are unvaccinated could miss at least three weeks of class.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Lina Ruiz
A school board trustee with the Fort Worth Independent School District, who is running for reelection, has accused her opponent of illegal campaign practices. No investigations have been opened as of Friday, April 4.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Lina Ruiz
North Texas lawmakers have introduced child care legislation that would expand an existing Tarrant County program, which provides higher wages to child care workers and lower tuition costs to families through grants. The Child Care Innovation Pilot program, or CCIP, has been proposed through House and Senate bills that, upon becoming law, would expand access to affordable child care and uplift the sector’s workforce by offering competitive grants to providers across the region.
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3 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Lina Ruiz
Rev. Ryon Price, the Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church, speaks to the attendees gathered for the Pastors for Texas Children Town Hall Call to Action at Arlington Heights United Methodist Church in Fort Worth on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
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