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Kindergarten through third-grade students at Amelia and Blanchette received 525 books donated by the Beaumont Association of Retired Teachers (BART).

Kindergarten through third-grade students at Amelia and Blanchette received 525 books donated by the Beaumont Association of Retired Teachers (BART).

Retired teachers donate hundreds of books to BISD students

News Staff
Friday, February 4, 2022
Kindergarten through third-grade students at Amelia and Blanchette received 525 books donated by the Beaumont Association of Retired Teachers (BART). Fannie Brown, BART’s second Vice-President and Children’s Book Project Chair, collects books each year.
BISD Memorial Stadium

BISD Memorial Stadium

New name pending for BISD stadium

Jennifer Johnson
Friday, January 21, 2022
In a 5-2 vote of the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) Board of Trustees the evening of Jan. 20, the elected officials opted to move forward with changing the name of the district’s stadium. What the new name will be, however; that remains to be determined.
Stacey Lewis Jr.

Stacey Lewis Jr.

Trustees revisit renaming stadium steeped in dispute

Scott McLendon
Thursday, January 20, 2022
After avoiding the agenda for a full year, the proposition of renaming Beaumont Independent School District’s (BISD) Memorial Stadium – a controversy-conjuring conversation – appeared once again on trustees’ list of action items at the board’s Jan. 20 meeting.
Walker

Walker

Editorial update: BISD bankrollees still in court

News Staff
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Although the state of Texas intervened and halted the rampant embezzlement and mismanagement documented at the Beaumont Independent School District in 2014 with a Texas Education Agency takeover, actors accused of pilfering the taxpayer coffers – or facilitating its occurrence – are still in court...
Volunteer at bmtisd.com

Volunteer at bmtisd.com

Help wanted

Jennifer Johnson
Friday, November 12, 2021
Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) is calling on parents and community stakeholders to volunteer at campuses district-wide, through participation in an array of on-site or virtual student-centered programs such as Parents and Community Support (PACS) - Safety Monitor, Virtual ROAR...
Screen capture of a tiktok where a student is shown holding a gun on the BISD campus.

Screen capture of a tiktok where a student is shown holding a gun on the BISD campus.

Administration addresses waves of violence at SETX campuses

News Staff
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Three suspects were arrested at the Beaumont United High School campus on Thursday, Oct. 21, after gunplay in the surrounding neighborhood led Beaumont police to the school in foot pursuit of suspects seen running to take refuge in the classes of BU. The incident occurred just after 9 a.m.
Campus on lockdown

Campus on lockdown

School threatened, placed on lockdown

Jennifer Johnson
Monday, September 13, 2021
The afternoon of Sept. 13, Beaumont ISD’s Odom Academy middle school campus was placed under a "secure lockout" when a threat in the form of a letter was received by campus leadership.
Beaumont ISD back to school 2021

Beaumont ISD back to school 2021

Beaumont ISD to invoke mask rule

Jennifer Johnson
Monday, August 23, 2021
“What has changed from Thursday until today… more and more cases are erupting in our buildings,” Beaumont ISD Superintendent Dr. Shannon Allen said Monday, Aug. 23, asking the Board of Trustees to invoke a mask mandate district-wide. King Middle School is already closed through Friday, Aug.
A volunteer reads to students at BISD.

A volunteer reads to students at BISD.

STAAR report shows ‘learning loss’

Jennifer Johnson
Thursday, July 22, 2021
In a presentation to the Beaumont Independent School District Board of Trustees scheduled for July 22, administration outlines a plan to raise the number of students meeting grade level assessment on the state standardized STAAR test.
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