SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie School Board to meet in 7 a.m. session Thursday
Bowie Independent School District Trustees will meet for an early morning session at 7 a.m. on Feb. 23 in the board room.
The meeting opens with an executive session to consider BISD administrator contracts. The superintendent’s contract and evaluation was addressed last month,as the board moves to the next level of administrators including all campus principals and assistants.
Regular agenda items will include numerous updates and reports.
Superintendent Steven Monkres will discuss technology upgrades, setting dates for district planning meetings, facilities and legislative updates and setting the March board meeting.
Curriculum Director Christie Walker will update the board on career and technology, plus assessments.
Campus principal and finance reports will follow.
In action items, trustees will review possible changes to its delinquent tax collection contract with Perdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins and Mott, LLP; consider the resolution on a District of Innovation designation; consider employee bereavement leave after a teacher asked it be reconsidered last month; and action on tennis complex drainage and other facility projects.
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.
Each class entertained with a song.
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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