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Forgiving college debt is Year of Jubilee only for a few
Our president announced this week that the federal government is going to cancel $10,000 in student loan debts for every American with student debt who earns less than $125,000 a year. Good and bad all in one government move.
Budget battles continued in Commissioner workshop
Split Vote on Additional Patrol Pay Shot Down by Judge Duncan
Baylor University Spring 2022 Graduates
Leanna Marie Walpole of Mexia will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts, Political Science from the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University during commencement ceremonies May 13-14 in the Ferrell Center.
Teacher retention at 85 percent at MISD
Teachers are leaving the profession at unprecedented rates, but Mexia Independent School District has increased its retention, Superintendent Ryder Appleton said. “COVID is considered a pandemic, and we now have a pandemic statewide with teacher retention,” Appleton said. “But (Director of District Services Shelli) Killingsworth has some really positive information we’ll share with you as it relates to Mexia.” From January to July, retirements and resignations are 48% higher than the average of the previous four years in Texas, Appleton said. Mexia is an outlier in this trend, he said. In 2019-2020, MISD had 77% teacher retention and 78% retention in 2020-2021, Killingsworth, said. This past school year the district had 85% teacher retention, she told the board.
