More media coverage

Here's what's been in the news the past week or so:

Column by Christopher Clausen at The Beaumont Enterprise:

South Park trial raises more questions for BISD - Each time someone connected to the Beaumont Independent School District speaks, they raise questions for peeved parents and average taxpayers alike. The latest instances came in the trial of the lawsuit filed some South Park High School alumni. They contend material from a group that supported the 2007 school construction bond - material based on information from a BISD employee Superintendent Carrol read more here.


Beaumont Enterprise Editorial

In the latest problem with the Beaumont ISD's bond issue, many parents and taxpayers are frustrated that construction has not yet begun on three of four elementary schools. On the other hand, work is proceeding nicely on the athletic complex near Interstate 10 read more here.


Letters to the editor at The Beaumont Enterprise:

BISD Should put academics over athletics - I agree that schools should be built before the stadium. Schools need to be given the tools to teach children first. Most schools are in desperate need of supplies and manpower in our overcrowded schools. We have too many people in the BISD administration building and not enough teachers and teacher aides. Classes with 20-plus read more here.

BISD tactics on Curtis will be remembered - Once again the BISD school board has done what they do best: Say one thing and do the complete opposite. At a previous town hall meeting at Sallie Curtis Elementary School, parents were told that the plan in place was to build portables on site unless read more here.