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The Socorro Independent School District board of trustees named a former SISD trustee to fill an at-large trustee position left vacant after Paul Garcia resigned late last month.
Michael Najera was appointed by the board to fill the post in a unanimous 4-0 vote at a special board meeting Tuesday.
Najera was appointed by the board to fill the post in a unanimous 4-0 vote at a special board meeting after the board reviewed candidate applications, which were open to the community.
The board had the option to hold a special election in November or appoint someone to fill the post, per a special board meeting on April 26 brought forward by SISD board President Cynthia Cindy Najera. She is one of only two SISD school board incumbents to win reelection in the general election May 1.
After a tumultuous year that has seen students falling behind and teachers simultaneously conducting classes remotely and in person, Texas public schools face a pressurized final six weeks full of standardized testing and makeup assignments.
Keren Jackson, a high school English teacher in the San Marcos Independent School District, has until April 30 to offer extra-credit projects or assignments to students who failed classes during the fall semester. She also has to spend several school days during the next month administering the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness to her students.
“I wish that society would take this as an opportunity to realize that students all learn differently at different paces depending on their environment and their interests and their learning desires, and that maybe we need more than one standard of education,” Jackson said.
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