Eighth-grade students at Watauga Middle School learn about the Magna Carta and the influence it had on American government.
Show Your Pride: Spicer Elementary Voice Translation
This Spicer Elementary first-grade teacher is using an iPod app with voice to voice translation to communicate with her French speaking student. After using the app in the classroom for a week this student had much more confidence and was able to participate in the class.
Show Your Pride: ACFT Girls on the Run (GOTR) team
The fall 2013 Girls on the Run (GOTR) team from the Academy at C.F. Thomas is the biggest GOTR team in the DFW metroplex for the second season in a row.
Dyslexia Meeting
In celebration of National Dyslexia Awareness Month, Birdville ISD is promoting awareness of dyslexia and related language-based learning disorders by offering a free, community awareness event.
Haltom High School Craft Fair
Board approves prepaying some bonds saving taxpayers more than $3.8 million
At their regular meeting on Sept. 26, BISD’s Board of Trustees approved the order calling to prepay $4.4 million of outstanding voter-approved bonds originally sold by the district in 2008. This early repayment of bonds, which has a 5 percent rate, will save taxpayers more than $3.875 million in interest payments over the next 18 years. The district will be able to do this without raising the debt service (I&S) tax rate for the 2013-14 school year.
“The Board is pleased to be able to prepay some of the voter-approved bond indebtedness,” Board President Brad Greene said. “This good news comes at the same time the district, for the 10th consecutive year, receives a ‘Superior Achievement’ rating under Texas’ Schools FIRST financial accountability rating system. The superior achievement rating is the state’s highest, demonstrating the quality of BISD’s financial management and reporting system.”