Mission CISD says it won’t actually remove 676 challenged books
The Mission Consolidated Independent School District says it won’t actually be removing or reviewing 676 books the school system’s former superintendent committed to purging earlier this summer. In May Mission CISD, like other Rio Grande Valley districts, received an email from local representatives of a conservative advocacy group. The letter urged the district to ban…
Read MoreCourt ordered to vacate disqualification of attorney representing Treviño in Hidalgo County JP election contest
The 13th Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday directing a judge to vacate his decision disqualifying attorney Rick Salinas from representing Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Sonia Treviño in her election contest against Ramon Segovia. State District Judge Jose Manuel Bañales disqualified Salinas, Treviño’s lead attorney, from representing her after he said in…
Read MoreMcAllen school board may have broken the law in messages about bleacher dispute with city
In mid-May, the people of McAllen learned that relations between their city and their school district had soured so much that the city of McAllen wouldn’t even loan McAllen ISD bleachers to use for a hometown baseball game. Tensions between the district and the city have been boiling all year long, ever since the school…
Read MoreAttorney disqualified from working Hidalgo County JP election contest
A judge Thursday disqualified Rick Salinas from representing Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Sonia Treviño in her election contest trial after he said in court that he’d witnessed Treviño’s opponent, Ramon Segovia, make fundraising comments relevant to the lawsuit. Segovia sued Treviño in June, alleging she’d won the May primary runoff for Hidalgo County…
Read MoreSegovia, Treviño head to court over Hidalgo County JP race
“I’m just feeling tired,” veteran Rio Grande Valley lawyer Gilberto Hinojosa said Wednesday on the tail end of a day’s worth of testimony in the Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Precinct 3, Place 1 election contest between Ramon Segovia and Sonia Treviño. That day clocked in at over 10 hours in the courtroom and…
Read MoreLa Joya ISD rolls out new leadership team, organizational chart
For her last major announcement for the school year, La Joya ISD Superintendent Marcey Sorensen officially announced at a board meeting last month the district’s new central office leadership team and the organizational structure it will be operating under. It’s been no secret that Sorensen intended to restructure the district’s leadership; La Joya ISD posted…
Read MoreLa Joya ISD PD arrests former flower shop vendor for theft
The La Joya Independent School District Police Department arrested one of the district’s former flower vendors for theft this June over a month and a half after the district began investigating $25,250 unauthorized charges that vendor made on a district credit card. Police arrested Rosa Barrera, the former proprietor of Peñitas’ now defunct Rossy Floreria,…
Read MoreValley View superintendent to retire
Valley View Independent School District Superintendent Silvia Ibarra will retire at the end of the summer. According to Ibarra, the Valley View school board accepted her resignation Monday and appointed an interim superintendent, though Ibarra says she’ll officially continue to serve as superintendent through the end of August. After August 31, Ibarra says she’ll be…
Read MoreMercedes ISD superintendent firing drags on
The Mercedes school board voted to fire its superintendent in May without saying why, and that process doesn’t appear to be going smoothly. In April, the Mercedes ISD board voted to place Superintendent Maria J. Chavez on administrative leave with pay. Trustees appointed an acting superintendent and, late in May, voted to fire Chavez “for…
Read MoreHidalgo County JP candidate sues over election
Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3, Place 1 candidate Ramon Segovia sued Democratic primary opponent Sonia Treviño last week alleging that she only wound up winning their May run-off race by 31 votes because the Hidalgo County Elections Department failed to enforce the law and her campaign capitalized on that lapse to secure…
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