Here are letters sent to the families of students at Tobias Elementary School by the Hays CISD Wednesday after a person with a connection to the campus tested positive fo COVID-19. CDC image. The Hays Free Press will continue to issue updates on the virus and community response to it as they become ...

Governor Greg Abbott has waived regulations to ensure students who are enrolled in work-study programs will continue to receive critical funding while campuses close due to their response to COVID-19. As campuses across the state move instruction online, critical work-study programs that ensure stud...

Governor Greg Abbott has announced that he has waived the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) testing requirements for the 2019-2020 school year. Additionally, Abbott is requesting that the Department of Education (DOE) waive federal testing requirements for the 2019-2020 school...

SAN MARCOS – Texas State University will extend spring break for students by one week and move courses to remote delivery through April 12 in response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Texas State President Denise Trauth announced the measures March 12. The move will enable the university to enact ...

Staff Report Temple Grandin, one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world, will speak at Texas State University on March 25 as part of the Common Experience Insight Series. Grandin will speak on “The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds” at 6 p.m. in the Performing Arts Cent...

Dripping Springs High School junior Jackson Kaiser has been selected as an Academic All-American by the National Speech and Debate Association. The Academic All-American award recognizes high school students who have earned the degree of Superior Distinction in debate (750 points), completed at leas...

Special activities were planned across Dripping Springs ISD elementary schools last week as students participated in “Read Across America" activities, both in classrooms and in the district’s Centers for Learning & Innovation.

Space City will be the home for Hays High softball player Carla Aleman in fall 2020 after she signed her letter of intent March 9 to play at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Helping to celebrate Aleman's signing were parents Yvette and Carlos Aleman, Hays High softball head coach Lisa Cone, ...

To promote an understanding of dating violence, Dripping Springs ISD high school students participated in a mock trial playing the role of all participants from defendants to lawyers and jury members. For the 8th year in the “courtroom” of retired Judge Brenda Smith, a realistic dating violence tria...

Hays CISD student groups – budding community leaders – are making sure everyone knows how important the 2020 Census is to education and so much more! Join them March 7 on the grounds of the historic Hays County Courthouse in San Marcos for a family-focused Everyone Counts! event that will also honor...