Sharyland district schools named 2018 – 2019 Honor Roll and One of Six districts in Texas named Honor Roll District by Educational Results Partnership

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Published: Tuesday, 18 June 2019 14:28

Written by Jose de Leon III

Sharyland ISD has been named to the 2018 - 2019 Honor Roll for its high achievement in student success.

The program, presented by Educational Results Partnership, is part of a national effort to identify higher-performing schools and districts that are improving student outcomes.

Sharyland ISD is one of 6 public school districts in Texas to be recognized and one of only 3 to have received the honor all four years since the inception of the award for Texas in 2015-2016.

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Texas Tribune holds McAllen screening of border documentary

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Published: Sunday, 16 June 2019 13:29

Written by Jose de Leon III

When Texas Tribune Investigative Reporter Jay Root interviewed a Honduran man named Carlos at an immigrant detention facility last summer, Root found a much bigger story to tell.

Root was covering the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy that reportedly saw more than 3,000 children be forcibly separated from their parents and placed into shelters or foster care-while their parents were prosecuted for entering the country illegally.

Though the administration initially reported 3,000 children were separated from their families, a January 2019 article from the New York Times reports that the actual number is unknown due to a lack of a coordinated tracking system between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security.

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McAllen high school student assisting respite center with her own store

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Published: Sunday, 16 June 2019 12:41

Written by Jose de Leon III

While most students spend their summer vacation resting after months of hard work at school, one incoming senior at McAllen ISD’s Lamar Academy is putting her business skills to use by accomplishing her dream of opening a store-all for a good cause.

Regina Daniella Martinez, 17, celebrated the grand opening of her store The Broadway Stop last Friday, June 7. The Stop is a clothing and accessory pop-up shop with products from a dozen local shops located at 311 S. Broadway Street located near the new location of the Sacred Heart Humanitarian Respite Center. The Center will donate a percentage of proceeds to purchase materials to be donated to the respite center.

“I wanted to help an amazing cause, Martinez said. “I’ve volunteered at the respite center before and I see they run purely on volunteers and donated items and wanted to do something to help.”

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Sharyland ISD offers free summer breakfast and lunch

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Published: Tuesday, 11 June 2019 14:13

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The Sharyland Independent School District announces the sponsorship of the Texas Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The Summer Food Program provides free nutritious meals at participating feeding sites to children 18 years of age and under. No form of identification is required. Meals will be provided at the sites listed below.

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Fire leaves Sharyland family homeless

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Published: Friday, 07 June 2019 23:26

Written by Jose de Leon III

Years of memories for one family in Mission went up in flames last week after their house was destroyed in a fire.

Firefighters were dispatched to a home in the 3800 block of San Daniel Street in the Sharyland Plantation community Friday, May 31 at around 7:30 p.m. where they encountered a one-story home with the garage fully engulfed in flames.

“It took us two hours to fight the blaze,” Mission Assistant Fire Chief Robert R. Alvarez said.

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