{"id":620830,"date":"2026-05-03T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620830\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:45:12","slug":"8-1m-bond-proposal-approved-in-gladewater-isd-incumbent-trustee-reelected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620830\/","title":{"rendered":"$8.1M bond proposal approved in Gladewater ISD; incumbent trustee reelected"},"content":{"rendered":"

$8.1M bond proposal approved in Gladewater ISD; incumbent trustee reelected<\/p>\n

Published 1:05 am Sunday, May 3, 2026<\/p>\n

Gladewater ISD residents have passed an $8.1 million bond measure to fund campus upgrades.<\/p>\n

The measure will pay for campus security upgrades, building modernization, the purchase of new school buses and repairs to older buses, Superintendent Rae Ann Patty previously told the News-Journal.<\/p>\n

The measure garnered 351 votes in favor, or 73.28% of the total, and 128 votes against, or 26.72%.<\/p>\n

It will not result in a tax rate increase for residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel so grateful to our community for approving the plan that will impact the learning environment of every student in our district,\u201d Patty said Saturday. \u201cWe appreciate the trust our voters have placed in us and are dedicated to being responsible stewards of these resources as we move forward with these improvements for our students and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bond will fund upgrades to Gladewater High School, which was built in 1980. Funding will be used to repaint classrooms and purchase new furniture. Career and technical education classrooms need modernized laboratories to let students perform practical, hands-on learning activities, Patty said.<\/p>\n


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The bond also will fund a facelift for Gladewater Primary School.<\/p>\n

District leaders want to install a keyless entry system at the high school and the primary school, giving students ID badges that they can swipe to enter and exit buildings, she said.<\/p>\n

Air conditioning units will be replaced at school sites. Also, intercom and radio systems will have to be converted from analog to digital to meet new FCC requirements, Patty said.<\/p>\n

The bond will pay for the purchase of new school buses and necessary modifications to older buses, including complying with the new seat belt law.<\/p>\n

Also Saturday, voters reelected Cori Arevalo to the District 5 seat on the school board..<\/p>\n

Arevalo received 275 votes, or 59.01% of the total, while challenger Emily Anderson received 191 votes, or 40.99%.<\/p>\n

Chris Thompson was unopposed in his bid for the Place 4 seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"$8.1M bond proposal approved in Gladewater ISD; incumbent trustee reelected Published 1:05 am Sunday, May 3, 2026 Gladewater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-620830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}