Judge: Beaumont ISD battles are hurting our economy

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Special Assistant for Communications for BISD, Jessie Haynes, sets out produce from the
Odom Organics garden before the meeting on Thursday, August 1, 2013.
Photo taken: Randy Edwards/The Enterprise

The battles waging within the Beaumont school board have trickled down into the economy.

An expansion project skipped out on locating in Beaumont because of the added income it would need to pay its employees to send their children to private school, said Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick.

More industrial expansion projects are likely on their way with the Panama Canal expansion, increased trade opportunities with Asia and the oil and gas stakes that have already been planted locally, Branick said.

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The latest incident involving the embattled school board happened Monday when Superintendent Timothy Chargois placed Jessie Haynes, special assistant to the superintendent for communications, on paid administrative leave after an altercation that took place between Haynes and school board member Mike Neil after the Aug. 1 board meeting.

More at http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Judge-BISD-battles-are-hurting-our-economy-4711097.php .

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1. Beaumont is in the news?

I grew up in Rosedale/ Chance Loeb/Lumbertown

Slack-Jaw, DeLuxe

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2. Not really.

I found the article when I went through the search of newspaper Websites that I've saved. I went ahead and posted the OP to let everyone know that life isn't pleasant even in areas that should be booming with the increased oil/natural gas trade. Apparently the schools in Beaumont are having so many problems that there is a market for private schools.

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3. and the biggest problem is no money to fix anything.