Following several investigations including monitoring of testing after admissions from staff that students had received assistance including changes to answer sheets, the Texas Education Agency announced in April 2014 that it would take over the district. 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. He announced his retirement in February 2019. In April 2019, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools, Dr. Shannon Allen was unanimously selected by the school board as the lone finalist for Superintendent. The school board was heavily criticized for not looking outside the school district for a new superintendent. Elections for the board of trustees are to take place in 2017, with members of the board of managers being gradually replaced by elected trustees over three or more years.