More than 1,000 stakeholder responses have been received by Hays CISD on the first draft of a proposed 2019-20 school calendar.

The new calendar incorporates several components that come with being a District of Innovation (DOI), which was unanimously approved by the HCISD board trustees in December 2018.

According to the Texas Education Agency, the DOI designation allows districts to be exempt from certain sections of the Texas Education Code for a five-year period. Hays CISD will obtain DOI stat...