This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise. Remember when the National Center for Educational Achievement recently placed more than half of BISD’s campuses on their “Higher Performing Schools” list? If not, we wrote about it here. And here. That was the good news. The “greater than good” news is that – according to Jessie Haynes – the NCEA has, for unknown reasons, had a change of...

Today is Monday. It is also Valentine’s Day, which means the universe either really hates or totally adores single people. I’m undecided, but I’m pretty sure I’m off the hook, either way. Married people celebrate Valentine’s Day differently than other Facebook relationship statuses. We don’t go in for all the lovey-dovey stuff, choosing instead to quietly affirm our affections in private, more intimate...

This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise. Taking a proactive role in doing their public relations job for them, we spent a few minutes this morning digging around Beaumont ISD’s website to see if could we find anything interesting. And we did. Here’s the headline: “More than half BISD schools rated among state & nation’s Higher Performing Schools” – Wow! More than half?! State and...