Educating kids in the Valley is critical for all Texans
Educating kids in the Valley is critical for all Texans Investments in education by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others is producing fruit. By JoAnn Gama . Here’s a reality in 2020 that was hard to envision in 1997, when I moved to South Texas to teach fourth grade: For low-income Latino students, there is no better place to go to school in Texas than the Rio Grande Valley. Valley students have steadily made gains over the last 20 years that defy expectations for a region that is among the poorest in the nation, where 97% of students are Latino and where English is commonly a chi...
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