(Ed.s Note: For years, members of Choferes Unidos, the Brownsville Independent School District bus drivers' union has agitated for better wages. Now that a board majority has given Superintendent Esperanza Zendejas a two-year extension and a salary hike of $35,000 and offered them a 2 percent raise, they came out in force again to express their dissatisfaction with the administration and the BISD board of trustees. The Zendejas contract extension makes her fire-proof and ties the hands of the incoming board trustees in the upcoming Nov. 8 election. A twenty-cent raise amounts to an insult against these men and women who are entrusted to transport our most precious cargo, our children. If we did without just one field of artificial turf in one middle school or with the indoors training field at Rivera, they could easily get a raise tomorrow. And you say we have our educational priorities in line with the needs of our community? Not.)
