 A conservator was appointed to manage the district and on July 14, 2014, Vern Butler, former interim superintendent of the El Paso Independent School District, was named interim superintendent at Beaumont, with a seven-member board of managers temporarily replacing the elected board of trustees.Among the managers is James M. Simmons, a former president of Lamar University.In April 2015 the board of managers named John Frossard, superintendent of the Wichita Falls Independent School District, as district superintendent.