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PHARR – The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District (PSJA ISD) has extended its college readiness preparation to Elementary students for the 2021-2022 School Year through the district’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Program.

McALLEN, TX – Education is the region’s ultimate competitive advantage, according to South Texas College President Dr. Ricardo J. Solis.

Mission, TX - Veterans Memorial High School (VMHS) choir director, Vanessa Rodriguez has been selected as a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction by the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS). Rodriguez was nominated by a student for outstanding dedication and commitment to excellence in the profession.

Hearings into President Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal got underway last week on Capitol Hill. Like many Americans, here at Judicial Watch we were shocked and outraged by the Kabul debacle—the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the chaotic airfield scenes, the suicide bombing that killed thirteen American military personnel and scores of others, the bungled U.S. drone strike that took down no ISIS enemy but managed to wipe out ten members of an American-friendly Afghan family, including seven children.

EDINBURG, TX – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrest two previously convicted sex offenders and a gang member.

LAREDO, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), officers at the Laredo Port of Entry, detained a male traveler wanted on an outstanding felony warrant for sexual assault of a child out of Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, located in Dallas, Texas.

PHARR - The PSJA Child Nutrition Department completed the Texas Department of Agriculture's (TDA) Spring 2021 Farm Fresh Challenge and received the “Best of the Bunch” Award, the highest award tier available to districts in Texas.

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration to stop the June 15 Guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This guidance requires employers to allow exceptions on the usage of bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, dress codes and even personal pronouns based upon the subjective gender identities of their employees.

The proposed tax rate is not greater than the voter-approval tax rate. As a result, City of McAllen is not required to hold an election at which voters may accept or reject the proposed tax rate. Image source: Twitter

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