education
Input sought on new BISD superintendent
Dr. Bob Griggs, consultant, will conduct an open meeting on Monday, March 29, at 6 p.m. in the A.C. Jones High School lecture hall as part of the superintendent search process for Beeville ISD . ...
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Host families needed for foreign exchange students
ASSE International is looking for volunteer host families to open their homes to International High School Exchange Students for academic school year programs. Students participating in academic...
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From left, Megan Finn, Alicia Keller, & Ismael Garza admire the new uniforms for the Mighty Trojan Band. Band hall renovations beginning: JHS band receives new uniforms
Brand new. Right out of the box. The A.C. Jones’ Mighty Trojan Band has received it’s order of band uniforms for 2010. “The students were very excited. They couldn’t wait to try theirs on,” said...
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FBCS students work math for St. Jude’s young cancer patients
The 5th/6th grade class at First Baptist Church School ( FBCS ) organized the school’s Math-A-Thon fundraiser in support of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Grades Kindergarten through 6t...
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Welders from A.C. Jones recently took top honors in the Skills U.S. District 12 welding competition in Victoria. From left, Dustin McCabe took first place, James Scotten won third and Ryan Vasquez won fifth place. Peyton Tabb, on the far right, went as an alternate and did not compete. Not shown are Clayton Tindol, who won second place, and Roberto Morales, who won fourth. JHS welders win district for seventh straight year
On Feb. 19, the A.C. Jones High School welding students won all three places in the Skills U.S.A. District 12 welding competition in Victoria. They now have won the district title for seven consec...
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Honor Rolls
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School TJES students earning all A’s for the fourth six weeks were named to the honor roll. They are: First grade — Shy Anne Alvarado, Jake Arroyos, Joseph Ayala, Aly...
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Rash earns Dean’s List at TSU
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Texas State University has announced that Aaron D. Rash of Corpus Christi has earned Dean’s List recognition for excellent academic performance for the fall 2009 semester. Texas State students mus...
Celebration to highlight Texas Public Schools Week
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Beeville Independent School District will celebrate Texas Public Schools Week beginning March 8-12. This year’s theme for the weeklong observance is “Building Leaders: Today they learn. Tomorrow t...
Project Grad registration ongoing
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Project Graduation, which will be held on May 28, is a safe place for all graduating seniors to hang out and have fun. Registration is being held in the Step Ahead office at A.C. Jones High School ...
TJES recognized by BISD board
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At the regular meeting of the Beeville ISD board of trustees, the faculty and staff of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School were recognized. They were recognized for Exemplary Achievement on TAKS ...
Track season begins with Trojan Relays
by Bruce Harper
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The track season is underway despite the cold and rainy conditions. Saturday’s Trojan Relays got lucky with the weather and the runners and jumpers had a relatively good morning and afternoon in wh...
BISD educators attend Renaissance Learning
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Last week educators with Beeville ISD participated in training to help strengthen some of the processes the district uses for Response to Intervention (RTI). RTI is a process that utilizes asses...
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Lawyer rebuts doubts about runaway Prius driver (AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - The mystery surrounding a Toyota Prius whose driver reported a stuck accelerator deepened Sunday as the motorist's attorney dismissed a congressional memo that questions his client's version of events.


Sun Mar 14 21:33:22 -0500 2010
No word from woman freed in alleged plot, mom says (AP)
AP - A Colorado woman who says she is the mother of an American held and later released in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist said Sunday she does not know where her daughter or grandson may be.
Sun Mar 14 14:12:21 -0500 2010
Survey: Readers don't want to pay for news online (AP)
AP - Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be "like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons," a new consumer survey suggests.
Sun Mar 14 23:10:29 -0500 2010
Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims (AP)

Swedish artist Lars Vilks talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog says he believes the suspects arrested in Ireland and the U.S. in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals . (AP photo/Scanpix, Bertil Ericson)AP - With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?


Sun Mar 14 19:01:21 -0500 2010