A Honor Roll 6th Grade Landrie Boyd Logan Calander William Louderman Olivia Morrison Brandt Peterson Hunter Whitecotton 7th Grade Hailey Crutchfield Drake … more

Quitman ISD trustees chose the district’s next assistant superintendent at the board’s meeting Monday. Christopher Mason was hired for the position beginning with 2019-20 school year. Mason … more

Quitman High seniors David Tarno and Jakelin Silva were crowned Prom King and Queen at the QHS Prom on Saturday, April 13. more

The Quitman FFA Ag Sales team advanced to the state contest after taking first place at the Area VI Career Development Events competition last week. Lexie Wilson, Shelby Hayes, Jordyn Blalock, and Jentri Jackson will compete May 3 in Huntsville. more

Quitman High School One Act Play has advanced to the state contest after competing in the regional contest April 16 at Tyler Junior College. The cast and crew will compete at the Round Rock ISD … more

Establishment of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) hub in Mineola took a significant step forward Monday when the MISD school board unanimously gave Supt. Kim Tunnell the green light to negotiate purchase of the former UT-Health clinic building just north of town.

The building, which is owned by UT-Health East Texas, would cost the school district about $150,000 in cash. UT-Health also would receive $300,000 in marketing considerations, which would include such things as naming rights and advertising. The roughly 7,000-square-foot building rests on about seven acres just north of Lake Brenda along Texas Hwy. 37. The building was once a clinic, but as of late it’s been used for storage.

The building could wind up being a permanent home for CTE classes or a temporary space.

“It could be short-term, but it also could be long-term,” Tunnell said after the meeting. more

Three high school students from Alba-Golden and Mineola earned medals at the UIL Academics Conference 3A Region 2 Spring Meet at Tyler Junior College last Saturday. Gabe Mullen of Alba-Golden … more

Quitman Proud Blue Band has selected its 2019-20 Drum Major and Color Guard. Kaitlynn Barnett was chosen as next year’s Drum Major. Whitnee Weiher will be the Color Guard Captain. Other members of … more

Mineola ISD named its Teachers of the Year at Monday night’s school board meeting. The four teachers “are examples of the quality of staff in our district,” Supt. Kim Tunnell said when the announcements were made. more

Inside a classroom adorned with models and cutouts of superheroes, 6- and 7-year-olds wear headphones, peer at a computer screen and learn rudimentary computer coding.

For 47 minutes each week, more than 100 second-graders at Mineola Primary School learn the elementary building blocks of computer technology. The kids are a long way off from understanding how to write complex computer programs, but they do grasp a fundamental understanding:

“They realize they’re actually making things happen,” says Kaye Morris, a primary school technology instructor. “They see the end results of the sequencing.”

Across America, schools are investing in technological training and education of children at a young age. Mineola, which prides itself for its technological innovation in the classroom, is no different. It sees learning the language of computers as a foundational skill for competing in the world of today and tomorrow. more