SCHOOL NEWS

The Bowie Boosting Our Jackrabbits Onward mentor program staff is looking for new mentors to add for the 16/17 school year. The training for new mentors will be Sept. 26 at the Bowie Elementary campus […]

By BARBARA GREEN Bowie Independent School District Trustees adopted an operational budget of $15.4 million at an early morning meeting Wednesday with a projected deficit of $1,436,725. That amount includes the general fund, food service […]

Gold-Burg Independent School District Trustees will operate in 2016-17 with a budget slightly lower than last year and the same tax rate of $1.13. The board met Monday night and approved the budget and tax […]

By DANI BLACKBURN Prairie Valley School Trustees approved the 2016-2017 budget during its meeting on Aug. 30. The budget calls for total expenditures of $1,805,221, significantly less than the 2015-2016 budget of $2,060,361. “We amended […]

Bowie Independent School Trustees will meet at 7 a.m. on Aug. 31 to consider the 2016 tax rate and the 2016-17 budget. The public hearing on both items will open the meeting. The school district […]

Montague Independent School District Superintendent Carla Hennessey said the Aug. 30 school board meeting should be short and sweet, with this year’s budget and tax rate highlighting the agenda. Action items will include amending the […]

Prairie Valley School cheerleaders have been selling chances to throw a pie in their sponsor, Kristi Eldred’s face at the first pep rally of the year. Her husband Jason Eldred won the first throw. See […]

Forestburg School Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. on Aug. 22 to continue work on the 2016-17 budget and approve several annual items. The district will review the final months of the present budget before […]

By BARBARA GREEN Bowie Independent School District Trustees received a revised budget proposal Monday night that includes salary schedules and revenue projections. A public hearing for the budget proposal will be at 7 a.m. on […]

Gold-Burg Independent School District Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. to consider a proposed tax rate for 2016 and conduct further discussion on the 2016-17 budget. Last week the district published a notice of public […]