EPISD vs. YSLETA
The Gene Roddenberry Planetarium takes more than a million kids to galaxies light years away, but one KVIA 7 viewer was upset that the school feild trips to the planetarium are only available to The El Paso Independent School District. "As an educator it makes me very sad because we want our kids to be open to everything that El Paso has to offer" said Dolores Saucedo. She is a teacher for the Ysleta Independent School District. With this problem the educational system will not work.
I asked Cory Stone about this problem to which he replied "We do have school field trips for Ysleta School District but only for 5th and 8th grade. We do four EPISD grade levels beacause we are part of the EPISD system so of course we do more than Ysleta. We also do private nonprofit schools, in the EPISD area these are parents and families paying taxes for schools. Also for boyscouts, girlscouts and other church groups."
The planetarium is opened to the public, during the school year once a month, to check the specific day look at the planetariums website. (http://grplanetarium.weebly.com/)
"For this speific school year, we have the April and May programs which is the same program called Perfect Little Planets for our 3rd graders. Basically we are openned to the public but we are not a public facility we are not a public museum we are actually part of the educational system, we are like an astronomy labratory for the district." explained Cory Stone. When you visit the website given there are some links to click on so you can explore other space web pages (example, NASA). There is also another link called Star Day which shows you what is happening in the sky right this moment.
I asked Cory Stone about this problem to which he replied "We do have school field trips for Ysleta School District but only for 5th and 8th grade. We do four EPISD grade levels beacause we are part of the EPISD system so of course we do more than Ysleta. We also do private nonprofit schools, in the EPISD area these are parents and families paying taxes for schools. Also for boyscouts, girlscouts and other church groups."
The planetarium is opened to the public, during the school year once a month, to check the specific day look at the planetariums website. (http://grplanetarium.weebly.com/)
"For this speific school year, we have the April and May programs which is the same program called Perfect Little Planets for our 3rd graders. Basically we are openned to the public but we are not a public facility we are not a public museum we are actually part of the educational system, we are like an astronomy labratory for the district." explained Cory Stone. When you visit the website given there are some links to click on so you can explore other space web pages (example, NASA). There is also another link called Star Day which shows you what is happening in the sky right this moment.