San Antonio ISD board votes to shutter West Side’s Rhodes Middle School

The school is the 17th the district has closed over the past three years as it struggles against declining enrollment. The post San Antonio ISD board votes to shutter West Side’s Rhodes Middle School appeared first on San Antonio Current.

City of San Antonio seeks public input on new name for César E. Chávez Boulevard

The City of San Antonio wants public input on a potential name change for César E. Chávez Boulevard in the wake of troubling allegations about the labor icon. An online survey is open now until 5 p.m. Thursday, April 2, to offer suggestions on what to rename the major thoroughfare, which bisects dow

San Antonio’s ICE field office conducted agency’s fourth-highest number of arrests this year

If the Alamo City office continues its current pace, its number of arrests will rise 60% over last year, a New York Times data analysis shows. The post San Antonio’s ICE field office conducted agency’s fourth-highest number of arrests this year appeared first on San Antonio Current.

New Braunfels ISD bans books written by Obama, Shakespeare and Matthew McConaughey

Texas’ Republican-backed book banning law, Senate Bill 13, is rearing its head in the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels this month as the school district there pulled more than 1,500 titles from school library shelves. Some of those books subjected to New Braunfels ISD’s ban include memoirs by for