[2] In September 2018, the St. Martin Parish School Board declined to renew Beebe's contract as superintendent, but she showed up for work the next day on the advice of her lawyer, L. Lane Roy of Lafayette.
[4] District 3 includes all or portions of these parishes: Ascension, Assumption, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard, St. John the Baptist, and St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, and Vermilion.
[12] Beebe is married to Joseph Richard "Rick" Pearson, Sr. (born February 1952), formerly of Lamar in Johnson County in northwestern Arkansas, who ran unsuccessfully in 2010 for the District 6 seat on the St. Martin Parish School Board.
[14] Buquet, who had been endorsed by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal despite their partisan difference, had announced her support for John C. White as the Louisiana state superintendent of education.
[4] Days after joining the BESE board, Beebe in January 2012 cast the only dissenting vote to Governor Jindal's nomination of White, calling for a wider search in choosing a new superintendent.
[4] On April 10, 2012, Beebe criticized Governor Jindal for the speed at which he passed his educational reform package, stating she believed he had pushed it through without proper dissent so that he could attend the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, as a "shining star" of his party.