SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie Elementary School registration set
BOWIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PRE-REGISTRATION
May 1–3, 2018
Only students not previously enrolled at Bowie Elementary School need to pre-register. If your child currently attends Head Start or Pre-Kindergarten at Bowie Elementary School, you do not need to pre-register.
Head Start: To qualify for Head Start, a student must be three years old by September 1, 2018. Children are accepted according to family monetary guidelines. For further information, call the office of the Head Start Registrar at 940-689-2950.
Pre-Kindergarten: Student must be four years old on or before September 1, 2018 and meet one of the following criteria: qualifies for free or reduced lunch (based on family size and income), or is homeless; or is Limited English Proficient; or either parent is active duty military, or is the child of a member of the armed services who was injured or killed while on active duty, or if the child has ever been in foster care under the conservatorship of DFPS following an adversary hearing. Placement is not guaranteed.
Pay for Pre-K: BISD will be offering a pay for Pre-K program for the 2018-2019 school year. We will be revising the information for the program and making it available for the interested parties to pick up at Bowie Elementary School.
Kindergarten: Must be five years old on or before September 1, 2018.
Registration for all three programs will be according to the student’s last name:
A-M: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 from 8:30-11:00 a.m.
N-Z: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 8:30-11:00 a.m.
Makeup Day for those not able to attend Tuesday or Wednesday:
Thursday, May 3, 2018 from 1:00-3:00 p.m.
All pre-registration will require the following:
Copy of Birth Certificate
Immunization Record
Social Security Card
Guardianship Papers (if applicable)
PRE-REGISTRATION PACKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE FORMS COMPLETED BEFORE YOU COME TO PRE-REGISTRATION, YOU MAY COME BY THE OFFICE AND REQUEST A PACKET.
For further information or questions, please call the Bowie Elementary office at 940-689-2950.
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.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
New Bowie High School Principal Dean Johnson brings 15 years of experience as an educator to the campus and he is looking forward to settling down in his new town.
The 38-year-old comes to Bowie from Farmersville Independent School District where he was junior high principal since 2022 and prior to that he was assistant starting in 2019. In 2023 he was named Texas Association of Secondary School Personnel’s Region 10 Assistant Principal of the Year.
Born and raised in Sherman, Johnson always knew his career path was coaching/teaching. He followed in his mother’s footsteps as she worked 30-plus years as a high school math teacher. His sister is a middle school math teacher and her husband is a teacher/coach both at Bells ISD, along with a cousin who is elementary principal at Burkburnett.
And dad can’t be left out, Johnson said while his father did several jobs, for many years he drove a bus for Sherman ISD, including those athletic team trips.
“I would often go with him on those trips with the football team and at seven or eight years old you look up at the players. I also was a ball boy. My path was set early,” said the new principal.
Read the full feature in the Thursday Bowie News.
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