Marshall ISD will be offering free breakfast and lunch to all students in the 2019-2020 school year due to the district’s participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

Marshall ISD and Mission Marshall’s partnership in the Read-to-Ride program completed its third year this week while achieving the goal of 88 percent of all MISD third-grade students receiving new bicycles due to meeting their reading level goals for the year.

Marshall ISD’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved a litany of facility upgrades at Marshall High School during Monday’s regular May meeting held in the Pat Smith-Gasperson Board Room. Included in the upgrades are new roofs over the ninth-grade wing of Marshall High School and a new roof at the district’s Administration Building located at 1305 E. Pinecrest Drive. The board also approved resurfacing of the track and Maverick Stadium as well as a resurfacing on the high school tennis courts on Maverick Drive.

Mark Windham has been named the new Director of Bands for Marshall ISD following official approval by the MISD Board of Trustees during the regular May meeting on Monday night. Mr. Windham comes to Marshall from Pleasant Grove ISD, where he served as the Director of Bands since 2015. He steps in to replace Mr. David Densmore, who has been named Band Director in New Caney ISD after serving as MISD Band Director since 2009.

Lisa Christopher, first-grade teacher at Price T. Young Elementary School, and Skylyn Potts, Biology teacher at Marshall High School, have been selected as the 2019 Marshall ISD District Teachers of the Year. The two educators will be officially presented to the MISD Board of Trustees during the regular school board meeting on May 20.

Sophie Anne Hudson has been named the Valedictorian of the Marshall High School Class of 2019, with Elvira Elizabeth Alonso earning distinction as the class Salutatorian.

Marshall ISD is taking school supply drives to the next level this year as it kicks off a community-wide “Pack the Bus” initiative that will see every single elementary school student given their full school supply list for free.

Marshall ISD has entered into an agreement with Under Armour and BSN Sports to provide official team and school apparel in a wide-ranging deal that makes MISD an official Under Armour community.

Marshall ISD’s Board of Trustees approved Superintendent Dr. Jerry Gibson’s recommendation to unfreeze the teacher salary schedule for the 2019-2020 school year during a special called meeting Thursday morning.