Alamo Heights alums seek fellow Black pioneers who integrated the San Antonio suburb s schools
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Two people talk in the shadows in a hallway at Alamo Heights High School in 1962. Alamo Heights Independent School District, which previously had been white-only, integrated in 1955 with four children from the John Henry Smith family, who lived in Olmos Park.Courtesy / Alamo Heights ISD
My friend Everett Fly, who is a National for the Humanities medalist, and I, both Alamo Heights High School graduates, are trying to identify Black pioneers of the Alamo Heights school system to recognize. These folk integrated Heights during the 1950s and ’60s. We have some names and need help finding them so we can recognize them. If you could help, it would make a great column for Black History Month in the Express-News. Joseph and I are determined to use the February event to bring awareness to history that has been denied.
A new ranking from data provider HomeSnacks ranked the wealthiest cities in Texas for 2021.
The company, which only considered places with a population of at least 5,000, analyzed several factors to determine where the state’s 1 percent live: poverty rate, median household income, and unemployment rate, as well as a look at “where the richest of the rich live.” All in all, 353 of the state’s communities were included in the ranking.
So what city topped the list? San Antonio suburb Terrell Hills earned the distinction a the state’s wealthiest city yet again. The affluent alcove some five miles northeast of downtown San Antonio topped HomeSnacks’ 2020 and 2019 lists of the Lone Star State’s richest cities.
Proposed bill would require Texas high school students to take a mental health class
Texas Sen. José Menéndez proposed three new mental health bills
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SAN ANTONIO – Texas Sen. José Menéndez of San Antonio is looking to expand on a law named after an Alamo Heights student who took his life after being cyberbullied in 2016.
David’s Law, which was named after David Molak, was passed into law in 2017 with the help of the District 26 senator.
“What we learned during the passage of David’s Law is that many of the kids who were exposed to bullying, they didn’t know what to do or who to turn to,” Menéndez said.
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