Seniors Embrace Busy Last Year At Local High School
Ector County schools reopen as Permian seniors share plans for scholarship, college, and future goals amid a busy final year. Josh Aranda, a Permian HS senior and TxDOT data processor, aims to stay on track and fly high as he pursues a college scholarship and pilot career. Lyndsey Squyres and others anticipate a more active year with extra commitments and memories to make before graduation.
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Ector County
Josh Aranda
Texas Department of Transportation
Jason May
Isteral College
Lyndsey Squyres
Aranda
Odessa Schools Back-to-School Notebook Highlights Week
A weekly Odessa Parents Notebook lists events across Carver Fannin Lamar Blackshear Blanton Gale Alamo Johnson Jordan Odessa Christian Reagan Ross St Johns St Marys Bonham Hood Nimitz Permian and Nimitz High including meet the teacher nights orientation, home visits, registration, reading tests, choir meetings, PTA and VIP volunteering, dress code reminders, T-shirt days, athletic signups, staff development and general first-day schedules with times for elementary middle and high school students.
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Odessa
Carver Early Education Center
Fannin Early Education Center
Lamar Early Education Center
Blackshear
Blanton Elementary
Pat Wells
Linda Strickland
Johnson
Jordan
PTA
Am. Bonham Junior High
Hood Junior High
Charters reshape learning with open enrollment in Texas
In Mission 15 year old Rey Ochoa moves from suspended junior high to the One-Stop Multiservice Open Enrollment Charter School. The state opens 19 new charter schools this fall as advocates push a local control education reform.
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Mission
Rey Ochoa
Rey
Texas
Brooks Flemister
Texas Education
State Board of Education
Houston
Dallas
Austin
Corpus Christi
San Antonio
Waco
Irving
Flemister
Stu
The Rabbit in the Moon Folk Tale I Remember
A Japanese Old Man in the Moon transforms into a beggar to learn about animals in a forest. He watches a monkey, fox, and rabbit as they live together and asks which is kindest and most generous. The tale ends with the beggar eating.
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Japan
Fisnight
Gece
Pepe Day
Rabbit
Fox
Monkey
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KFLY
Gale Pond
Alamo Elementary
Odessa Christian
Reagan
P.T.A
Ross
St. John's Episcopal
Shonda Atkins
Unin
Emily Hurt
Connie Godledski
Rice
Ann
Eeresenter
Joyce Ball
Beverly Woods
Yd Berry
Morris
St. Mary's Central
Nimitz Junior High
Permia High School
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