SCHOOL NEWS
NCTC-Bowie, Bowie High plan open house Monday
There will be an open house at the Bowie High School Ag. Building from 5 to 7 p.m. on July 31 to showcase the new machinery that will be available for students to use in the new welding classes offered through North Central Texas College.
Classes are being offered at the high school campus on machinery that will eventually be relocated to the new NCTC Industrial Technology Building that is under construction at the Bowie campus. The building has a March 2018 completion date.
Community members and prospective students are invited to see the brand new machinery that will be in the labs, as well as ask any questions about the programs or the new ITC expansion. Hot dogs and giveaways will be provided until they run out.
Danielle Wolf, career technology education dual credit coordinator, said area educators are looking forward to the new ITC, but they are are excited to offer new courses now, along with one dual-credit class now.
There will be one dual-credit course in the mornings from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Fall classes at NCTC begin on Aug. 28 and run through Dec. 15. The schedule will include special welding classes at Bowie High utilizing some of this new equipment. Open enrollment is underway weeknights at the local campus at 6 p.m.
Those with questions can call the campus at 872-4002.
Bowie Independent School Trustees continued work on the 2026-27 budget during its Aug. 17 meeting including the creation of a salary schedule and establishing a proposed tax rate.
The budget and 2026 proposed tax rate will be up for adoption in an early morning meeting at 7 a.m. on Aug. 31, just at the brink of the new fiscal year.
The salary schedule is based in large part on the Texas Association of School Board’s salary study commissioned by the district. Per the study teacher salaries are above the market median at most benchmarked years. They are most competitive at year 0 where they are 5% above the market median and least competitive at year five where they are 1% below the marked median.
District officials initiated the salary study to get more definitive information where its salaries fall and while some areas were in the range, other category of employees fell below the market. Trustees discussed the need to move auxiliary staff and custodial closer to the market level.
Superintendent Donna Hale and Finance Director Paula Peterson explained the new schedule will not be an across-the-board percentage increase, but focus on getting all employee pay scales closer to the market averages.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonnline.com
Bowie Independent School District Trustees began plowing through the 2026-27 budget at its first workshop on Aug. 3.
The center of discussion was presentation of the salary study commissioned by the district through the Texas Association of School Boards. Laura Wurman of TASB explained how the data was gathered and developed into recommendations for the district.
Purpose of the study is to assess competitive pay levels for common jobs. Wurman said they analyses market data to determine where the district is at risk and identified priorities for pay system improvements.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Diana Calderon will join the Bowie High School staff as assistant principal in the new school year.
She comes to Bowie from Lake Dallas Elementary School where she served as assistant principal since 2024. Her prior positions include administrator at Decatur High School from 2022-2024, and English as a second language director at Ponder High School and Middle School from 2017 to 2022.
Calderon’s educational background began with a bachelor of business management in 2007 from the University of Phoenix. She earned her master degree in bilingual education from Southern Methodist University in 2018 and a master’s in educational leadership also in 2018.
The educator is working on her doctorate of educational leadership.
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