SCHOOL NEWS
Nocona School Board to meet three times next week
The Nocona School Board will meet three times next week. The meetings will include the board’s regular monthly meeting and two special meetings.
The board will conduct the first special meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 15 to hear the Texas Academic Performance Report.
The regular monthly meeting is at 7:40 p.m. on Feb. 15. Items on the agenda include:
- Student recognition of the middle school one act play
- Facility recommendations
- Principal’s reports on curriculum, co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Items on the reports will include enrollment, calendar of events, faculty/staff, academic progress and achievements, sports programs and partners in education, textbook and food service.
- Executive session for personnel matters. The discussion will include principals and directors evaluations and contracts.
The second special meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Feb.18 to consider approval of an order calling a school building bond election.
Prairie Valley Independent School District launched what it hopes will be a new school tradition, the induction of members into its new Hall of Fame, which honors and recognizes those who have left an impact and legacy within the halls of PVISD.
Nominations were accepted earlier in November with the induction ceremony hosted during the recent homecoming. Nominees could be graduates and staff members. The induction ceremony was on Dec. 20 with the inaugural Hall of Fame Class which includes the following members: Tom Foster, Barbara Mann, O.C. Mann, Mary Thompson and W.R. Tucker.
Meet the members of the first Hall of Fame class in your weekend Bowie News.
Top photo: Members of the first PV Hall of Fame class received plaques in recognition. Some family members accepted for their honoree. (Left) Gloria Foster, daughter of Tom Foster; Sherry Mann Ford, daughter of O.C. Mann; Barbara Mann, Mary Thompson and Patti Tucker, wife of W.R. Tucker. (Photo by Jordan Neal)
Bowie Junior High Principal Jeneanne Fleming said she is proud of her student participants and coaches as they won the District 7AAA University Interscholastic League Academic Zone Meet by approximately 200 points on Dec. 6.
Henrietta and Jacksboro were the other two schools competing.
Fleming explained students committed to practicing before and/or after school, and they attended the meet on a day they didn’t have school.
Read all the results in the mid-week Bowie News.
Trustees of the Bowie Independent School District will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 16 for the final session of 2024.
An executive session is set for the board to receive the intruder audit report. Superintendent Blake Enlow said the Texas School Safety Center recently conducted an audit at one or more of the campuses.
The audit tests whether a campuses is accessible to an unauthorized individual and is part of the state’s school safety directives to help districts identify ways to improve safety. Enlow said the report had one finding and corrective actions have already been implemented.
In action items, Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris will provide information on possible action related to the BISD school library collection development per House Bill 900 and the gifted and talented policy and procedures. The student transfer list also will be presented along with an update on the SAFE grant
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