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Bridge City Independent School District (BCISD) is happy to share that Bridge City Elementary and Bridge City Intermediate have qualified to serve free breakfast and lunch to ALL students for the 2024-2025 school year, thanks to the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). No meal application is needed for these schools to receive this benefit – all BCE and BCI students are eligible.

Families with students at Bridge City High School and Bridge City Middle School should still complete a meal application to see if they can receive free or reduced-price meals. Be sure to include everyone in your household on the application. Applications can be completed online here.

More information on this program and Free and Reduced-Price Meals is available online here.

The 5th Annual Backpacks and Cuts event will be held Saturday, August 3, 2024, from 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM at Destiny Church, located at 3423 Martin St. in Orange. Destiny Church and Hair & Co. sponsor the event.

Clear, mesh and regular-style backpacks and supplies will be distributed to children in grades K-12. One backpack per student, and items per student are limited. Students must be present to receive backpacks. No registration is needed.

The LifeShare Blood Center will conduct a blood drive and give out supplies & other goodies.

Haircuts will be provided by Hair & Co.

At the July 1, 2024, school board meeting, the Vidor ISD School Board approved Devan Dart as the principal of Vidor High School. Dart had been the principal of Oak Forest Elementary for the last three years.

“I am excited for this opportunity and ready to continue the tradition of excellence the previous principals before me have instilled. I look forward to working with our staff, parents, and community members to ensure we are providing every opportunity for all of our students to be successful. I love this town and the community, and words cannot express how grateful I am to serve Vidor High School!”

Dart is returning to the high school where he was the assistant principal for four years before going to Oak Forest.

WOCCISD is offering its Read and Roll program on Tuesdays at Navy Park and Thursdays at 802 Bluebonnet in Orange from 11:45 A.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The remaining Tuesday and Thursday dates are July 2, 9, and 6, and the remaining Thursday dates are July 11 and 18. Lunch is provided by the Summer Feeding Program.

The Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. EPA selected a number of Texas school districts to receive funding, including Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD to receive $2,200,000. The overall funding for Texas is $31,510,000, which will be used to purchase a statewide total of 123 new and clean school buses to replace older, diesel-fueled school buses that have been linked to asthma and other conditions that harm the health of students and surrounding communities.

These rebates will help school districts purchase over 3,400 clean school buses—92% of which will be electric— to accelerate the transition to zero emission vehicles and produce cleaner air in and around schools and communities. Under the Program’s multiple grant and rebate funding opportunities to date, the EPA has awarded almost $3 billion to fund approximately 8,500 school bus replacements at over 1,000 schools.

In September 2023, the EPA announced the availability of at least $500 million for its 2023 Clean School Bus rebates. The rebate application period closed in February 2024 with an overwhelming response from school districts across the country seeking to purchase electric and clean school buses. Given the level of demand, including from low-income communities, Tribal nations, and U.S. territories, the EPA doubled the initial amount of available funding in this round to a total of nearly $1 billion.

This third round of funding will build on the previous investments of almost $2 billion via the Clean School Bus Program’s 2022 Rebates and 2023 Grants to further improve air quality in and around schools, reduce greenhouse gas pollution fueling the climate crisis, and help accelerate America’s leadership in developing the clean vehicles of the future.

The selections announced will provide funds to school districts in 47 states and Washington D.C., along with several federally recognized Tribes and U.S. territories. Prioritized school districts in low-income, rural, and Tribal communities make up approximately 45 percent of the selected projects and will receive approximately 67 percent of the total funding. The program advances President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which aims to deliver 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal investments to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized, underserved and overburdened by pollution.

The EPA is also partnering with other federal agencies through the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation to provide school districts with robust technical assistance to ensure effective implementation.