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Ranking RGV School Districts 2015-2016

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Earlier this week TEA released a preliminary A-F Accountability report grading schools for their performance for the 2015-2016 school year. Beginning in 2017, per HB 2804, TEA will issue “A-F” grades for school districts to measure their performance, abandoning their “meets standards-needs improvement” model. Districts are split as to whether this is a good idea or not, but either way, it’s hard to argue that the model DOESN’T give parents an easier snapshot of how well or how poorly their local district is performing.

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Some Judge From Texas Just Ruined Your Pay Raise

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Back in May, President Obama and the Department of Labor announced a major law change that would have allowed low-salaried workers finally earn overtime pay for overtime work across the country and U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant of East Texas just fucked it all up. Keep Reading

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Advance News Journal Grossly Defends Pharr City Employee’s Sexual Misconduct

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In the Observations section of Advance News Journal, Editor G. Romero Wendorf reported that Pharr employee Dahlia Ybarra had filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her supervisor, Pharr Events Center Director Gary Rodriguez, naming the City of Pharr as another defendant. The rest of Wendorf’s piece, however, is a slut-shaming pile of misogynistic garbage.

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The Bench Wire’s 2016 Election Night Predictions

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It’s finally here. It’s almost over. By this time tomorrow we will have a new president-elect and find something else to argue about for the next few years until 2020.

But before this shitstorm ends, we have one last shot at predicting what will most likely go down tonight: Keep Reading

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Hidalgo Co. Commissioner AC Cuellar Is Suing The Guy He Lost To

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Naxiely Lopez of the Monitor is reporting that Hidalgo County Commissioner AC Cuellar has filed suit against his opponent David Fuentes claiming Fuentes committed “fundamental campaign finance violations regarding transparency of the political system.” Keep Reading

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Austin American Statesman: Progreso Politics Remain Shady As Fuck

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Friday morning, Austin American Statesman’s Elizabeth Findell (a ‘The Monitor’ alum) wrote a piece on election fraud that’s ran rampant in east Hidalgo County (the “mid-Valley” for all of us down here) over the last few years.

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VITC Colin Kaepernick: Moving The Chains

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On August 26th, the QB for the 49ers Colin Kaepernick took a stand by taking a seat. Keep Reading

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Local Asshole Files Lawsuit Against RGV Schools For Copying His Stupid Ideas

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In an article posted by The Monitor, Johnny Lopez, owner of Springboards To Education and it’s terrible website, of Edinburg has filed a lawsuit against McAllen ISD, PSJA ISD, La Joya ISD, Mission ISD and IDEA charter schools for using the phrases “Millionaire Reader,” “Read a Million Words, “Millionaire’s Reading Club,” “Million Dollar Reader,” “Feel Like a Million Bucks” to incentivize their kids to read.
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