By Claudia Lorena Silva, El Paso Matters Luzea, 10, sat beside her sister Vega, 7, under a shady tree outside the Bobby Joe Hill PK-8 STEAM Academy on the last few days of their summer break. On Monday, they will enter the unfamiliar halls of the combined elementary and middle school because their previous campus, Newman Elementary, was shuttered when the last school year ended.

Their father, Louie Sublasky, was distraught when he first found out the El Paso Independent School District planned to close the nearly 70-year-old Northeast school. “My initial reaction was very emotional. Nobody likes displacement. It was really hard for me to understand why this school was getting shut down without looking at the economic climate of EPISD,” Sublasky said. Most of his concerns were laid to rest

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