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Beaumont ISD Superintendent Dr. Timothy Char-

gois bites his lip before the beginning of Mondays
school board meeting. BISD held its monthly
agenda review meeting Monday night. Monday
morning, the TEA announced that it would be re-
placing the superintendent and the school board.
Jake Daniels/@JakeD_in_SETX
Beaumont ISD trustees to appeal states decision
to take over school board and oust Chargois
Opinions
vary on
the states
decision
If Beaumont ISDis unsuccess-
ful inits appeal of astate-ordered
takeover of thedistrict, aboardof
mostlylocal managers andnew
superintendent will beinplace
byJuneandoustedsuperinten-
dent TimothyChargois couldstill
haveajobinthedistrict.
Onlyafter theappeals process
is completeanother month
fromnowwill Education
Commissioner Michael Williams
nameanewsuperintendent.
The Beaumont school dis-
trict intends to appeal Texas
EducationCommissioner
Michael Williams decision
to replace the school board
witha boardof managers
andremove Superintendent
Timothy Chargois, a decision
at least one trustee has called
a waste of time.
The boardwill discuss
whether to appeal Williams
decisioninclosedsession
at its regularly scheduled
Thursday night meeting.
The meeting starts at 5
p.m. inthe BISDadministra-
8, 8reeke 0ram
BEAUMONT
8, Am, Meere
BEAUMONT
BISD, page 3A
BOARD, page 7A
The phrase under newmanage-
ment nowapplies to the Beaumont
school district, but opinions onwhat
that means vary widely, depending on
the source.
Deathpenalty, was one opinion,
andits speaker, District 3 trustee
WoodrowReece, was just as adamant
inthat it was undeserved.
Beginning of resurgence, said
Michael Getz, Beaumont city coun-
cil member andtenacious foe of the
boardandits majority, all of whom
nowwill be replacedwitha state-
appointedboardof managers.
8, 0aa wa||ach
BEAUMONT
REACTION, page 4A
New faces on BISD board
wouldnt show up until June
This is not
celebratory.
I wish it had
not come to this, but
I think the commis-
sioner had no choice.
Now, we have to
go through it, try
to unify and get it
behind us.
State Rep. Joe Deshotel,
D-Beaumont
BEAUMONT ISD: WEIGHING IN ON THE TAKEOVER
I didnt think
we should
get the death
penalty. Were not like
El Paso or North For-
est. Dr. Chargois was
starting to put things
together. Some people
in the last two years
were hell-bent on
taking this board out.
Woodrow Reece, District 3
trustee
I feel relieved
in that there
will be people
coming in to take a
real serious look at
what we have. People
are coming in who
will trust, but verify.
In the past, we didnt
have verification.
Tom Neild, District 6 trustee

INSIDE: More reactions to the state takeover: 4A
OnMonday, Williams for-
mally dismissedthesevenboard
members andnamedFred
Shafer, currently themonitor
for thedistricts special educa-
tiondepartment, as thedistricts
conservator.
Shafer is makingsurethe
district is doingwhat needs tobe
donetostay ontrackandmak-
ingrequiredchanges andmak-
ingsurethey dont doanything
illegal or out of ordinary, said
DeEttaCulbertson, spokesper-
sonfor theTexas Education
Agency.
inside
Former Beaumont ISD
finance director Devin Mc-
Craney, left, and comptrol-
ler Sharika Allison entered
guilty pleas on Monday to
federal charges in connec-
tion with embezzlement: 5A
0a||t, p|ea
tionbuilding, 3395 HarrisonAve.
Chargois saidhe will allowthe
boardto consider its options,
whichinclude appealing the com-
missioners decision.
Fundamentally, theres a
belief that your sitting boardand
superintendent are passionately
concernedabout the success of
our children, Chargois saidafter
Mondays meeting. Until such
time we are not allowedto do that,
per se, we will do that.
District 5 trustee Mike Neil said
he wouldask his fellowboard
members what purpose anappeal
wouldserve.
Anappeal wouldbe a com-
plete waste of time, he said.
Also Inside
Conservator Fred
Shafer who is he?: 3A
A timeline of events
surrounding BISDs
woes: 4A-5A