Cotulla Independent School District: Where a President’s Lesson Still Shapes a Community’s Future

Cotulla Independent School District: Where a President’s Lesson Still Shapes a Community’s Future

There is a particular kind of town in South Texas where the land does most of the talking. Cotulla is one of them. It sits in La Salle County, a place where cattle ranches stretch toward the horizon and where, more recently, the machinery of the oil and gas industry has carved its own rhythm into daily life. The Eagle Ford Shale boom did not simply pass through Cotulla; it reshaped it, bringing new jobs, new families, and new pressures to a dist…