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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.
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There will be more new faces than incumbents on the El Paso and Socorro school boards following Saturday s election results.
At El Paso Independent School District, District 3 trustee Josh Acevedo was the only incumbent to win re-election.
Former District 1 trustee and board president Bob Geske and District 5 trustee Chuck Taylor did not to seek re-election.
District 4 incumbent Diane Dye was decisively defeated by newcomer Isabel Hernandez, unofficial results showed the two-term trustee with less than 10% of the vote in the six-way race.
Hernandez, who had more than 57% of the vote, was one of four EPISD candidates to receive campaign contributions from the Kids First political action committee, which has historically supported charter schools.
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