Board members sworn in  DSISD board members Barbara Stroud and Ron Jones were sworn in for their new terms by Justice of the Peace Terry Kyle. Stroud and Jones both won their respective reelection bids in the May 6 general election. DSEF gives back The Dripping Springs Education Foundation made its ...

Derek Woods, who has been the Dripping Springs High School assistant band director since 2003, will become the school’s Band Director when Keith Lancaster retires in December. During his time at Dripping Springs High School, Woods has worked with the marching and symphonic bands, as well as the vars...

Mary Jane Hetrick from Dripping Springs ISD was among a group of school board members gathering in McAllen April 19–22 to continue learning the latest on 21st century challenges to leadership and the implications of those trends for educators. Session theme for this, the fourth of five training sess...

Of the 33 seventh-graders from Dripping Springs Middle School who took either the SAT or ACT exam as part of the annual Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) Seventh-Grade Talent Search, 15 were recognized for their high level of achievement. Academically talented students across the United State...

f you see formations of pointed-winged birds sailing overhead, they may well be Mississippi kites, heading for their summer home in the Texas Panhandle. This streamlined, falcon-shaped hawk has a wingspan of about three feet and is dark gray above and a paler gray below.   It has a long black tail a...

A $103.3 million guaranteed maximum price (GMP) tag for the construction of Hays CISD’s third high school was given the go-ahead by district leaders. The move was done in conjunction with approval of the GMP for construction on Hays CISD’s new elementary school, which was set at $28.7 million. Both ...

Approval of a new stipend system Tuesday could aid Hays CISD leaders in attracting needed instructors to help turnaround the academically struggling Hemphill Elementary. The Turnaround Campus Stipend Structure, approved by a 7-0 vote, would provide a $5,000 stipend for the principal at Hemphill, wit...

(photo courtesy of Hays CISD) (photo courtesy of Hays CISD) Lehman High seniors last week kick started graduation celebrations by participating in the annual robing ceremony held at the Lobo Den. The ceremony offered students a chance to honor a teacher or educator by allowing them to place their gr...

Last week, Lehman High awarded its annual Totem awards, which are given to a senior boy and girl in the categories of Wisdom, Integrity and Pride. Wisdom totems were awarded to Robert Egal and Taylor King, while Integrity totems were given to Ethan Snyder and Esther Nyaberi. Pride totems were awarde...

Noah Mugan (photo courtesy of Hays CISD) Seventeen HCISD middle school students claimed State Level honors in Duke Talent Identification Program honors this year. Dahlstrom Middle School student Noah Mugan went a big step further and attained the honor of national level honors. All local Duke TIP ho...