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It's a case involving Conspiracy and Fraud within the Socorro Independent School District. 273 Philipino teachers promised a brighter future instead many left without jobs and no money. But what some say is even more troubling is who's allegedly part of this smuggling ring. The former Interim Superintendent of Socorro Schools, Mario Aguilar, and his wife Magdalena Aguilar, Principal of Vista Del Sol Elementary. "It's shocking because we need to trust these people." "I volunteer a lot at school and it is shocking, it's probably going to shake up a lot of things, bring out other stuff that we're not...

There are a few things that will have to change if Texas is serious about providing quality education for all children. One of them is affirmative action. Not the concept, per-se, just the words. Those two words, affirmative action, when attached to the topic of education, are so encumbered with divisive meaning that they are useless. The term is a lightning rod attracting immediate defensiveness. People have a nasty tendency to burden words. We hear them once and associate a meaning with them. And as we use them, in conversations, in debates, in arguments, we attach personal perspectives and prejudices....