More than $3 million in federal funds for special education, school safety, and economic development projects in the Rio Grande Valley have been recently secured by the Rio Grande Valley’s congressional delegation. On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, Congressman Vicente González, D-McAllen, obtained $1,243,658 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs for a five-year program called Project PLEASE (Program for Leaders to Educate and Advocate for Special Education) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Project PLEASE will train 14 district educators from the Rio Grande Valley to administer special education and early intervention ...