Everman News

Second-graders at Souder Elementary School in Everman found a few more guests than expected at their holiday tea party Friday.

Second-graders from left, Mikayla Meddaugh, Amy Mendoza, Lorin Overstreet, and Jaime Martinez are surprised to see the special gifts at their table.

Thirty Fort Worth schools as well as campuses in the Arlington, Crowley, Everman and Lake Worth districts perform poorly, and their students must be given transfer options, the state announced Tuesday.

By TRACI SHURLEY Reading from college-level books isn't something second-grader Olivia Jones does every day, but at the 2009 Texas Reading Bee Championship she wowed the judges by doing just that, winning the contest and coming home with a go-kart and a laptop.'It was kind of hard,' said Olivia, who attends Arlington's Larson Elementary.

Burleson, Carroll, Crowley, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, Everman, Fort Worth, Grapevine-Colleyville, Keller, Mansfield and Northwest.

By SHIRLEY JINKINS EVERMAN - Danny Perez's eyes opened wide in surprise as soon as his new glasses were perched on his nose.'This looks blurry,' said the Townley Elementary fourth-grader as he removed and then replaced them.

Arlington school administrators didn't wait until Tuesday's election to start mapping out how they would spend $197.5 million in bond money.

A growing colony of South American parrots has drawn curious bird watchers to the little town of Everman.

David Casstevens' Oct. 6 story tells of work to restore a dinosaur, Paluxysaurus jonesi , that will soon have its place in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.

Fort Worth police are investigating a substitute teacher for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old Everman Junior High School student.

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By JESSAMY BROWN and TRACI SHURLEY Time's up.At the start of the school year, kindergartners and seventh-graders were given a six-week extension on required immunizations because some providers ran out of certain vaccines during the summer.

The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, started toying with the idea of powered flight in 1899 after writing to the Smithsonian Institution requesting information about flight experiments.

Willie Thomas, 65, a retiree living in southeast Fort Worth, finally grew tired of waiting for his lease bonus check from Glencrest Resources, the company that leased his property in November 2006 for drilling in the then-red-hot Barnett Shale natural gas play in North Texas.

Students in Denton, Crowley, Burleson, and Everman all started a new school year on Tuesday.

By EVA-MARIE AYALA Twenty Fort Worth schools are spending nearly $700,000 on overnight staff retreats - many at luxury hotels and posh resorts in North Texas - despite warnings from state officials that staying at such places can appear excessive to taxpayers.The retreats, funded by federal tax dollars, are intended to help teachers improve ...

By TRACI SHURLEY When Sondra Thomas was named principal of Mansfield's Annette Perry Elementary School, she thought she'd be opening the new school today.

By EVA-MARIE AYALA Texas spends an average of $7,818 per student - the seventh-least amount of all states - according to a census report released Monday.The report, based on 2007 data, also shows that the state had the largest outstanding debt for education purposes, at $50.7 billion.DeEtta Culbertson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Education ...

By ANTHONY SPANGLER FORT WORTH - Tarrant County's net taxable property values increased the smallest amount in 15 years, igniting concern among many local government officials as they prepare their budgets for next year.The data released Monday shows a 2 percent increase in the net taxable value, compared with year-after-year increases ranging ...

By SHIRLEY JINKINS Trustees of cash-strapped Texas school districts are being forced by budget deficits to consider the thorny issue of rescinding a local-option homestead exemption that some of them granted to homeowners during easier times.Across Texas more than 200 districts grant the extra exemption - as high as 20 percent of the residential ...