SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie ISD Trustees face lengthy agenda on Monday
Trustees of the Bowie Independent School District will meet in regular session at 5:30 p.m. on July 19 facing a lengthy agenda of business.
In action items, Superintendent Blake Enlow will discuss entering a contract with Harper Perkins Architects for design work of the new administration building. The company was selected last month in a request for qualifications and Enlow has been negotiating design fees and developing the contract.
The Nov. 2 board election will be called with two places on the ballot. place one is filled by Jacky Betts and place two by Debbie Leonard.
The board will review possible action related to House Bill 547 (University Interscholastic League/home school) and approval of the government-issued Davis Bacon Wage Scale as issued for Bowie.
An executive session is scheduled for personnel, discussion of a junior high assistant principal. Sara Cravens this week was named the new intermediate principal, opening up that position at BJH.
During information, Salli Page will discuss ACT/SAT testing information and there will be a continuing education seminar for construction delivery methods and Texas Education Agency requirements.
Enlow will review pending meeting dates as the board conducts budget workshops and works around other activities when school opens in August.
Other discussion topics will include the Education Service Center’s safety audit summary, campus handbooks and code of conduct updates in early August, changes to federal grant regulations and the state testing assessment update.
The campus principals will give campus updates and Finance Director Paula Peterson will give a preliminary budget report and business reports.
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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