Please use the information at the link below to set up your parent PowerSchool account.  

Parent PowerSchool Instructions

BPS has a new process for ensuring that all of our volunteers have had background checks.  If you wish to volunteer in a classroom, on a field trip or for our Watch D.O.G.S. program, you will need to read through and complete the volunteer handbook which is linked below.  Please turn in the back page to the office and we will send it in to start the process.  

Volunteer Handbook

Liberty Parents' Guide to Understanding Reading Behaviors

The link below will help you to understand reading behaviors:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1se79sDATF_ak7kkLpr5JdBCtDIBCG751C2RC5-Q2DNE/edit

To sign up for the Watch D.O.G.S. program, please go to Activities and then Watch D.O.G.S.  Thanks. 

Bismarck Public Schools offers a FREE summer lunch program for local kids ages 18 and under Monday-Friday through June 30. There will NOT be weekend food distributions at these sites on Fridays. 

11-11:30 am: Lions Park, Centennial Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Solheim Elementary, Miller Elementary, and Kiwanis Park.

11:30 am-12:30 pm: Wachter Middle School, Century High School, Bismarck High, Moses Elementary, Legacy High, Lincoln Elementary, and Liberty Elementary School.

11:45 am-12:15 pm: Will-Moore, Grimsrud Elementary, Pioneer, Myhre, and Murphy Elementary Schools, and Ministry on the Margins (201 N 24th St, east parking lot).

12:30-1 pm: Sunrise Elementary School.

The North Dakota Department of Human Services has some important information about additional food assistance benefits that your household may be eligible for. Please read the appropriate letter that applies to your students and follow the instructions laid out in the letter. The deadline to apply is June 15, 2020.

Myhre and SCHS P-EBT information
Other Schools P-EBT information

To qualify you need to complete the P-EBT application and submit in one of the following ways:

• Mail to: North Dakota Department of Human Services
  Attn: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program / P-EBT 
  600 E Boulevard Ave, Dept 325
  Bismarck, ND 58505
• Email to: SNAP-PEBT@nd.gov
• Apply online at www.nd.gov/dhs/services/financialhelp/

Questions can be directed to SNAP-PEBT@nd.gov OR call 701-328-2332

Sincerely, 
North Dakota Department of Human Services

1. Elementary schools will continue into the summer in the Distance Learning Platform.
2. Curbside library book checkouts will be offered at some locations

Camp Edventure (grades 1-5) is Monday through Friday from June 1 through July 13, except July 3. 

1. Middle and high schools will continue into the summer in the Distance Learning Platform.
2. High School Administrators and Teachers will work with their individual classes to bring students in for small group instruction when the need necessitates. An example of this would be students needing to complete a hands-on laboratory experiment which would be done following the Facility Use Guidelines. 
3. Curbside library book checkouts will be offered at some locations

Simle & Wachter summer school is June 1-July 9, Monday-Thursday.
Horizon summer school is June 1-25, Monday-Thursday. 

Bismarck High, Century and Legacy High School distance learning summer school is Monday-Friday.
Session I: June 1-19
Session II: June 22-July 10

South Central High School summer school is June 1-June 26.

No summer school July 3.

The League of Women Voters interviewed the candidates running for Bismarck School Board. Two spots are open on the June 9^th election. See their interviews on Dakota Media Access TV under Meet the Candidates: DMA’s homepage.

The Bismarck School Board will meet at 5:15 pm at the City-County Building at 221 N. 5th Street. The public is invited to attend the meeting or watch it LIVE on cable channel 2.

The School Board Election is June 9.