TEXARKANA, Texas – Students have been in school for weeks now, but Parks Elementary School in Texarkana held a formal ribbon-cutting and open house on Thursday.

President Wanda Boyette has served on the Board of Trustees for District 3 for 30 years and said that the board had a vision that was brought to life through the community's support.

“We created a strategic committee several years ago to look at the community to interact with many of the leaders to discuss what they wanted to see and the direction they wanted this community to go for and what they felt like our needs were,” said Boyette. “So, after quite a few meetings, they came up with the recommendation and brought it before the board and we were completely supportive of everything that they wanted us to do.”

Boyette said

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