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Prairiland ISD calls for $7.5 million bond election PATTONVILLE — Prairiland ISD trustees this week called a $7.5 million bond election for May 1 to add classrooms at Blossom Elementary and Prairiland Junior High. Trustees scheduled a public meeting March 1 to answer questions, and another meeting later in April to present architectural drawings, Superintendent Jeff Ballard said about action taken at Monday’s meeting. Time and place for both meetings will be forthcoming. “It’s something we have been needing in Blossom for a long time,” Ballard said about the referendu...

Feb. 1-5 was National School Counseling Week, and North Lamar ISD campuses recognized the tremendous impact their school counselors have in helping students achieve school success and planning careers. School counselors are certified, experienced educators with a master’s degree in school counseling who shoulder many responsibilities. They are actively engaged in helping students examine their abilities, strengths, interests and talents. They work in a partnership with parents as they encounter the challenges of raising children in today’s world. They focus on positive ways to...

A roughly $49 million bond proposal is in the works at North Lamar ISD, similar yet different from one called a year ago and then canceled when school trustees became concerned about the effect the coronavirus pandemic might have on the local economy. Acting on results from a district-wide survey conducted Dec. 15-21 by a national research firm, a Community Advisory Committee made a number of changes in the current proposal, opting to remove turf from athletic fields and to save portions of Bailey Middle School from demolition, among other things. The committee met at length during recent wee...

If a possible North Lamar ISD bond election was held today, it would go down 52% to 40% in defeat, but a well-planned information campaign could reverse the trend, according