District forms campus support teams to aid Zavala
ECISD launches campus support teams to assist Zavala and other campuses with literacy, math, science and reading. The program assigns subject specialists as instructional coaches, trains teachers, co teaches, and tracks data monthly to guide ongoing support and eventual handoff.
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Theacho
Tom Crowe
Carolyn Gonzalez
Wills
Amy Harvey
Zavala
Diane Harlan
Pat Salcido
Cavazos Elementary
Martha Overby
Whitney Squyres
Jennifer Arthur
Carla Stringer
Whitney
Martha
Pat
Diane
Jennifer
Harlan
Noel
Goliad
Lauren Tavarez
Blackshear
Overby
Squyres
Budget clash over Mexico Initiative funds at Hispanic Chamber
ODC and Hispanic Chamber officials spar over travel and salary budgets tied to the Mexico Initiative. Chavez advocates a six month interim director plan with funds for a professional international director and recruiter to set pay scales, while Gonzales and others press for fuller funding and accountability. The council and chamber members clash over how to allocate roughly 120,000 dollars in travel and 19,350 dollars for a bookkeeper amid questions about salaries and oversight.
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Chavez
CDC
Garza
Richard ‘Buz’ Browning
Mexico
Gonzales
Raymond
District 2
Dewey Bryant
Bryant
Carlson
Betsy Triplett-Hart
District 4
Mike Gardner
ODC
Hispanic Chamber
Odessa
Local citizens protest cruelty case at Ector County Courthouse
After Lynch faced January arrest, a small Odessa group gathered outside the Ector County Courthouse condemning dog cruelty. Odessa resident Jane Boles urged turning the negative into positive via fundraising for a no kill shelter though no action by Lynch is reported. Judge John Smith presided. defense attorney Jason Leach is listed in records.
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Lynch
Ector County
Odessa
Jane Boles
Texas awards first medical marijuana license in Austin
The Texas Department of Public Safety issued the first medical cannabis license to Consortium Texas, part of Consortium Holdings, to grow process and sell cannabis oil for patients with intractable epilepsy. Compassionate Cultivation and Surterra Texas await approvals from more than 40 applicants, with two year renewal fees near 320000 dollars and initial nearly 490000 dollars in regulatory costs.
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Consortium Texas
Florida
Consortium Holdings
Austin American-Statesman
Jose Hidalgo
Pennsyl
Vania
Puerto Rico
State Department of Public Safety
Surterra Texas
Greg Abbott
Morris Denton
Compassionate Cultivation
Denton
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