Check out the new State Board of Education website, and get to know your SBOE representative!

https://sboe.texas.gov/

https://www.ed.gov/better-fafsa

The Texas early application deadline is April 15, 2024 (for the 2024-25 year).  You can get it in later, but the earlier the better.  Please pass along to your high school counselors. 

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGxSRPhxGXHJjKSVDPklFQJqfDz

https://state.nokidhungry.org/texas/resources/

Check out the NKH website and resources available for your food service staff.  We have partnered with No Kid Hungry now for almost four years.  

https://www.facebook.com/100064493023548/posts/pfbid02iF2PKJPkfVcy5G8uFiQKAnGY7sWQ7929eAvVPJ2b3F4dLESbweNSPtpLTc1Szqi2l/?mibextid=cr9u03

Congratulations to Borden County alum Ryann Phillips for making the 2024 Olympic Trap Shooting Team.  Look out Paris!

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/jesse-plemons-star-everything/

https://youtu.be/jiyBhho3WNc

Awesome opportunities for the 600 students at Chilton ISD, great job Chilton ISD Staff and Board!

https://www.jotform.com/form/240425618206148

If your district is a member of TREA, you are eligible to apply for this award.  

TREA Superintendent Training Session Description
ESC Region 20
April 1, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., lunch included

TREA will offer a Superintendent Mentor Training on Monday, April 1, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Education Service Center Region 20 in San Antonio, Texas. Mentors must have at least three years of successful experience as a school superintendent in Texas in order to attend this training. This is not a training for new superintendents. The training will be conducted by Dr. Rick Alvarado. The Training is open to all Region 20 District Superintendents who qualify, and the training is free of charge. TREA member district superintendents from other ESC Regions will be invited to attend, as well. If interested, contact Jamie Dunevant at [email protected], 210-370-5671
at ESC Region 20 or Bill Tarleton at [email protected] , 254-602-2056.
An excerpt from the requirements for superintendent certification is below:

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/ruralgoodjobs/#resources

https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/2024-nsbw-toolkit

I remember how hot it was in July of 1997.

We were hauling and unloading all our worldly possessions, including a one-year-old child, at the old Hafer place on the edge of town.