Focusing student accountability and streamlining teaching methods are two ways Hays CISD is aiming to take Tom Green Elementary out of its current Improvement Required (IR) status.

Those methods are part of the district’s Targeted Improvement Plan (TIP) for Tom Green, which was approved Sept. 24 by the Hays CISD Board of Trustees. The TIP outlines ways educators at the campus can improve reading and writing, math and science scores by the end of the academic year.

“We’re making ...