Welcome Back!

August 10, 2012

Dear Edna ISD Employees,

We have had a great summer, though it felt really short!  School year 2012-2013 is right around the corner!  For all of you who had the opportunity to leave Edna and chose to stay I want to say a personal thank you and I can’t wait to see you back.  For those of you who are new to our system we are very glad you are here and look forward to getting to know you and to support you while you begin to feel at home.  For all the rest of you I am equally glad you are here and look forward to seeing you.

We enter the second year of severe budget cuts, but we are doing OK.  The Board, as you know, approved major raises for everyone and I hope you are as pleased as I am.  The Academic Building of the new high school is not quite ready as we hoped, but will be in early September.  All other construction is right on schedule.  The football team, band, volleyball team, spurs, and cheerleaders are already hard at work for an exciting fall.

We will have a welcome reception for our new administrators and returning administrators in new positions on Thursday, August 16^th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the EES cafeteria.  Please drop by and meet these great folks.  New teachers will report to EES library on Friday, August 17^th, 8:00 a.m. for a day of new teacher induction.  Teachers and paraprofessionals report to Edna Elementary at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, August 20^th for our Welcome Back breakfast!  Further, our wonderful friends at First Baptist have invited us all to lunch at noon on Wednesday, August 22^th.  Students return August 27^th! 

I hope your summer was all that you wanted it to be.  We are really glad you are here.  Our mission is to ensure a quality education for all.  Each year we must do a better and better job of that!  We can do it thanks to you, and I look forward to seeing all of you on August 20^th.

Sincerely,

Bob Wells