Last Week:

• The Courier published a guest column from board candidates Seth Bryant.
• The Colorado Times Recorder published another in-depth article looking at our town, this one focusing on the influence of Andrew Wommack.
• Federal funding is being used to help teachers buy school suppliers…read about it here.
• On the first day of school, members of the Gideons were handing out New Testaments outside schools.
• Bates, Kimbrell, and Illingworth turned the back to school nights into a campaigning opportunity.
• This year’s convocation (all-hands staff meeting) broke with tradition and instead of a pep rally type of feel, staff got to listen to Ken Witt and Brad Miller. Miller talked about the new district policy addressing transgender and LGBTQ kids. Read more here.
• The district updated its logo to remove the ‘A Place of Becoming’ tagline.

Here’s what’s coming up next week:

• I’m working to get enrollment numbers. Official numbers won’t come out until October, but I think we’re all curious what’s going on with this.