Event: Community Forum on Education Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022 Time: 10 AM to 1 PM Place: Jefferson/Silva
Category: Education
Xavier Miranda on Back to School
Teachers, students, and parents are excited about returning to school, and eager to resume face-to-face instruction. However, adequate preparations are
3 2 of 4 CREEED Candidates lose EPISD Bids
Three out of the four candidates receiving support from the Kids First PAC, which is supported by members of the
Credit Where Credit Is Due
This week I published a post critical of the El Paso Times coverage of an EPISD District 3 candidate. You
The El Paso Times’ Reporting on Another CREEED EPISD Candidate
This morning’s El Paso Times featured this report: An El Paso school board candidate confirmed she does not believe masks are effective
The EPISD – CREEED Controversy
Charter schools aren’t the problem. This story from KTSM.com: El Paso businessmen and board members of a nonprofit supporting the
Community Forum for EPISD Board of Trustees Candidates
This came in from Xavier Miranda: We would like to cordially invite you to participate at our Community Forum for
Their Present is Our Future
Across the river from UTEP, Colonia Felipe Angeles is poor. And it’s not even the poorest neighborhood in Juarez. Colonia
Xavier Miranda on School Reopenings
*The following statement is being submitted to Chief Academics Officer Tamekia Brown of EPISD, who will host a live chat,
Racism in El Paso
Racism is kind of like a secret club. If you don’t belong, you might not know it exists. In 1927,
Post-Pandemic Education Thoughts
This piece was written by Xavier Miranda. Our education community must contend with a new malignant normalcy in our society.
Change is Hard
About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities
Retrovision: Make El Paso Great Again
This article originally appeared on 2017 March 30. Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that
F is for Forget About it
This just in, from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is the only public school district
Back Away From The Computer
Remember when our good friends on the Board of the El Paso Independent School District were selling us that $668
Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects
This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for
Educating the Electorate
The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have
Our Local Education
In this piece that I picked up from Brutus’ blog, and which appeared here originally, the author says you don’t
Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror
I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on