As part of our commitment to offer our scholars a rigorous, world-class education, five IDEA campuses offer a two-year International Baccalaureate program designed to prepare students in college and beyond.  The IB World Schools at IDEA include Donna, Frontier, McAllen, and Brownsville in the Rio Grande Valley and IDEA South Flores in San Antonio. Students […]

PHARR – The Texas Workforce Commission has awarded PSJA ISD with a $269,624 grant that will offer training and equipment to 140 students who are interested in pursuing careers in technical education. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) awarded a total of 41 grants amounting to $8,261,090 to colleges, technical institutes, and school districts throughout the state that […]

PHARR – Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD hosted a free week-long training for all parents Aug. 24-31 utilizing Facebook Live. Parents received training on how to navigate the new virtual learning landscape for their children and learned how to use Google Classroom, Google Meets and the district’s Home Access Center to check their children’s schedule and grades, among other topics. The PSJA ISD Virtual Parent Learning Academies were collectively viewed this past […]

AMERICAN SHIPPER: Mexico is again the top trading partner of the United States, with two-way trade totaling $290.6 billion from January through July. The ongoing US-China trade spat and subsequent U.S. tariffs on $500 billion of Chinese goods, helped catapult Mexico back to No. 1 in July.  According to data released Thursday by the U.S. […]

Labor Day is a commemoration of the struggles and sacrifices of the labor movement that led to worker protections we enjoy today, from the eight-hour workday to workplace safety. Today, more than ever, we owe a debt of gratitude to those who have been deemed “essential workers” during this pandemic – frontline health care workers, […]

I am not optimistic that we are going to see major (COVID-19 relief) legislation pass Congress between now and Election Day. If you look backwards; if you look back to when this pandemic began, in the opening weeks and months we saw enormous bipartisan cooperation in Congress. Congress came together repeatedly and passed major legislation […]

Almost 42 years to the day, my mother, who was a blue collar worker, and my dad, who was a blue collar worker, they drove my oldest brother to UT-Pan American in Edinburg. They did not have a dependable car so left early to get him there in time and during daytime.  They dropped him […]

HARLINGEN, Texas – Unemployment compensation benefits are constantly in a state of flux so to hear about the latest we are interviewing Rev Torres. Torres is part of Texas Taxpayer Assistance Project, a division of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Torres was a regular contributor on taxation issues when KHID 88.1 FM and KJJF 88.9 FM […]

RIO HONDO, Texas – Cameron County Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez says the next push to secure a high Census 2020 count is to focus on WIC centers.  Women, Infants and Children centers are federally funded to provide healthy supplemental foods, nutrition counseling for pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children under age five.  Garza-Perez pointed out […]

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