The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have a called meeting on Monday, June 24, 2013. Meeting time is slated for 6:00pm. The meeting is scheduled to be held in the Italy High School’s band hall.
In a surprising move this morning, Hank Hollywood resigned as Athletic Director/Head Football Coach at Italy High School when he submitted his resignation to school superintendent, Barry Bassett.
The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 17, 2013 in the Italy High School cafeteria. Meeting time is slated for 7:00pm.
Within two minutes of opening the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and invocation, the Italy ISD School Board convened into executive session. After 30 minutes of deliberation, the board came to a unanimous conclusion to hire Davee Garcia as a 4th grade teacher for Stafford Elementary. Barry Basset made a motion to hire Mrs. Garcia and Cheryl Owen seconded.
Italy Independent School District (IISD) will accept sealed bids on the following surplus items:
The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have a called meeting today, Monday, June 10, 2013. Meeting time is slated for 6:00pm and will be held in the Italy High School Cafeteria at 300 S. College Street, Italy.
The Italy ISD is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will not be discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the sites and times as follows:
It’s time to solve the tornado problem, once and for all
The Italy School Board of Trustees hired three teachers/coaches at a special meeting Monday evening.
The Italy ISD School Board will have a called meeting on Monday, June 3, 2013. The meeting will be held in the Italy High School cafeteria and will be called to order at 6:00pm. The agenda slates that several hires will be considered by the board.
Teachers, administrators, former teachers, friends and family were on hand Wednesday to bid a fond farewell to Sharan Farmer, librarian at the Italy ISD.
Two new school board members — Sal Ramirez and Ida Overton — were sworn in Monday evening at the monthly meeting of the Italy School Board of Trustees. Larry Eubank, incumbent, was also sworn in as trustee.
Italy ISD is releasing students early today, Tuesday, May 21, due to a severe weather forecast. The elementary students are being released at 1:15 p.m. The high school/junior high school campus will be releasing at 1:30. A severe storm is expected to pass thru Ellis County around 3:00 p.m. Italy ISD wants the community to feel free come to the dome to seek shelter if the need arises. There have been several activities cancelled this evening. Please read further for more information.
Avalon School has been listed once again by the U.S. News and World Report magazine as one of the best high schools in the United States. Avalon is listed as receiving the Bronze Award in the April 23, 2014 on-line edition of the national publication. The school was also listed as a Bronze Award Recipient in 2008, 2010, and 2012.
The Italy School Board of Trustees named Jonathan Nash of Red Oak the new principal at Stafford Elementary at a special meeting Monday evening.
The Italy ISD School Board will have a called meeting on Monday, April 22, 2013. The meeting will be held in the Italy High School cafeteria (300 S. College Street, Italy) with a slated start time of 5:00pm.
The Italy School Board of Trustees spent more than an hour-and-a-half in executive session Monday evening discussing educator contract renewals.
The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, April 15, 2013. Meeting time is slated for 7:00pm. The meeting will be held in the Italy High School Cafeteria at 300 S. College Street, Italy.
The Milford FFA Ag-Mechanics students cleaned up at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeos Ag-Mechanics contest held March 15-17.
Avalon IDS will hold its Pre-Kindergarten Round-Up for children ages 3- 5 years old on April 12,2013.
Have you ever had a close family pet that was just a part of your family? So close that when they died you were very sad and grieving? That is what happened to Dr. Del Bosque and his wife Neva.
Avalon ISD kick started the Easter Season off by being the first Easter Egg Hunt this year. Even though Monday evening was cold it did not stop anyone from coming out to hunt eggs. It was a pretty amazing sight when you looked over the school yard and saw over 4,000 eggs and masses of candy. The look of surprise and happiness in each face of the students gazing at all the eggs said it all.
The Italy School Board of Trustees officially canceled the 2013 school board election Monday night at their monthly meeting. Two incumbents did not sign up to run again – Curtis Riddle and Jon Mathers. Two people, Ida Overton and Sal Ramirez, did sign up to run and are unopposed in the election originally scheduled in May.
The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, March 25, 2013. The 7:00pm meeting will be held in the Italy High School Band Hall at 300 S. College Street, Italy. The meeting is open to the public. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Italy High School and Italy Junior High School will have Cheer and Mascot Tryouts on Saturday, April 6th in the Italy High School Dome. All 6th-11th grade girls and boys are welcome to tryout.
The Italy School Board of Trustees concluded a four-hour meeting Monday evening by unanimously extending the contracts of Lee Joffre, high school principal, and Hank Hollywood, athletic director, for the 2014-2015 school year.
Several students from Milford ISD participated in the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Ag Mechanics Show this past weekend. They really out did themselves bringing home lots of blue ribbons.
The Italy Independent School District’s Board of Trustees will have their monthly meeting on Monday, February 25, 2013. Meeting time is slated for 7:00pm in the Italy High School cafeteria at 300 S. College Street, Italy.
Lots of good things are happening at Milford ISD. They have hired some new teachers, they are starting a baseball program and are instituting new security precautions.
With the new year, came a new look for the Italy ISD website. With new features, including teacher pages and calendars, the website has been updated and ready to serve the families of Italy ISD students.
The Italy High School yearbook staff is now offering the opportunity to personalize the yearbook in a very special way with recognition ads. Regardless of the occasion, your ad provides a great way to recognize your child in a special and unique way.
The Italy ISD business office provided the attached Statement of Revenues, Expenditures and Changes in Fund Balance for the year ended August 31, 2012. This was included in the reports given to the Italy ISD School Board this past Tuesday night as well as submitted to the Texas Education Agency.
The Italy School Board of Trustees held a marathon four-and-a-half hour meeting Tuesday evening. Much of the time was spent hearing about CSCOPE, an online curriculum management system, as well as discussing the superintendent’s contract and a multitude of other items.
The Italy Independent School District’s board of trustees will have their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 22, 2013. The 7:00pm meeting will be held in the Italy High School Band Hall at 300 S. College Street.
The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have a special called meeting on Monday, January 14, 2013. The meeting will be held in the Italy ISD Administration Office at 300 S. College Street, Italy and will begin at 7:00pm. This meeting has been called to conduct the yearly Superintendent Evaluation.
Jeannie Richardson (president) of The Milford Titus Women decided to honor the Milford fourth grade class with a pizza party on Thursday. Why you might ask? Because they collected the most can goods for the food drive lead by the Milford Titus Women.
The Italy ISD staff and Board of Trustees send our heartfelt condolences and thoughts to the people of the Newtown Public School District. In light of this tragedy, Italy ISD has reviewed our safety plans and measures to best ensure the safety of our students and staff. Additionally, and in compliance with the Texas Education Code, Italy ISD conducts a safety audit at least once every three years. We last completed such an audit in August of 2011.
A representative from the Texas Association of School Boards Risk Management, Jennifer Jones, spoke to the Italy School Board of Trustees at their monthly meeting held Monday evening.
The Italy ISD School Board will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, December 17, 2012. The meeting will be held in the Italy High School Band Hall and will begin at 7:00pm.
Italy ISD superintendent, Mr. Barry Bassett has scheduled an inservice training for the teachers on Wednesday, December 5th. Students at both the Italy High School and Stafford Elementary School will have an early release that day at 12:15.
The Italy School Board of Trustees held a public hearing Wednesday evening to learn of the district’s Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) for the 2010-2011 school year.
The Italy ISD board of trustees will have a special meeting on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 6:00pm in the Italy High School band hall at 300 College Street, Italy. The primary agenda item slates a hearing to discuss the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) for the district for the 2011-2012 school year.
Italy Independent School District will hold a public hearing at 6:00pm, Wednesday, November 28, 2012.
The newly-organized Stafford Elementary Student Council members were introduced Monday evening at the monthly meeting of the Italy School Board of Trustees.
The Italy ISD School Board will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, November 19, 2012. Meeting time is slated for 7:00pm and will be held in the Italy High School band hall at 300 S. College Street.
The Italy School Board of Trustees hired two new teachers for Stafford Elementary and a nurse for the district at a called meeting Friday afternoon.
The Italy ISD Board of Trustees will have a called meeting on Friday, November 9, 2012. The meeting time is slated as 4:30pm. The meeting is open to the public and will be held in the Italy High School band hall.
When I walked into the gymnasium at Avalon Elementary you could hear all the cheers and hand clapping you could ever imagine. Everyone was there, teachers, moms, dads, aunts, uncles including fellow students cheering one another on.
November 9th is the last date to nominate students for the gifted and talented program at the elementary and the high school. If anyone wants to nominate a student to be tested for the Gifted and Talented Program, they should get the required paperwork submitted to Melissa Bedard at the elementary or to Sharan Farmer at the high school. The Gifted and Talented nomination forms are on the IISD website under Special Programs.
Italy school officials and volunteers recognized by Lone Star Cyclists, the hosts of Tour d’ Italia, who also presented Italy ISD with sizable donation. Parent’s voiced concerns regarding class-size-waiver as well.
