How did our Senate office first learn of the ‘disappeared’ students?
Several years ago, Bowie High School entered Phase Four of No Child Left Behind and faced possible closure without action from the community. With so many proud ‘osos orgullosos’, strong alumni and long time community activists behind reform at Bowie, closing Bowie was not an option for anyone in our great community. As a result, our office organized “Equipo Bowie” along with dozens of community stakeholders to analyze student data from Head Start all the way to UTEP within the Bowie feeder pattern, identify ‘best practice’ solutions then reform the feeder pattern to achieve lasting student success. That’s when teachers, parents, educators and others called us to describe what Lorenzo Garcia and the priority division were doing at Bowie (and other priority schools) to ‘disappear’ students.
