By Kim Hilsenbeck The Board of Trustees approved a compensation plan for next school year that school officials say positions Hays CISD to compete for the most talented educators in Central Texas. In previous years, Hays CISD ranked near the bottom of the list in terms of salary and compensation for...

Staff Report In an award presentation by Hays CISD board members, district volunteers received recognition for their more than 30,000 collective hours of service over the past year. At the May 26 meeting, the administration and the board thanked all 5,500 registered volunteers. Trustees Sandra Bryan...

By Kim Hilsenbeck After three years on the Hays CISD Board of Trustees, President Robert Limon is stepping down. His family attended the ceremony and joined him as his fellow board colleagues sang his praises at the May 25 board meeting.  Vice President Holly Smith-Raymond presented him with a glass...

SUBMITTED REPORT   This year marked the third annual Hays CISD Ambassador Awards and emotions ran high during the Monday night event as staff and faculty across the district received their honors.  The HCISD Ambassador of the Year went to Dahlstrom Middle School’s Charlotte Peterson. Peterson, a 30-...

By Paige Lambert After much discussion by the Hays CISD board of trustees, a posting of possible positions for the 2015-16 fiscal year was released.  The release included two assistant principals, two Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) coaches and two outreach counselors at the middle school level. I...

By Kim Hilsenbeck It’s spring and that means budget season for Hays CISD. As the board of trustees and district officials hash through another year of budget talks, with an estimated $136,717,270 budget, there are some key points on the table. The biggest one is arguably compensation for teachers an...

By Kim Hilsenbeck Stakeholder feedback is the goal of Hays CISD’s fourth annual customer service survey, according to a release by the district earlier this week. The survey, which runs through April 3, aims to determine what parents and community members think about a variety of topics. Hays CISD S...

By Andy Sevilla Hays CISD childcare workers complain they were left out of the latest round of pay increases, despite the issuance of at least 1.5 percent pay jumps for all other district employees last summer. “We recently learned that as an employee group we were ineligible to receive the 1.5 perc...

By Moses Leos III A total of 13 Hays CISD powerlifters will be on the road to the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi to participate in the Texas High School Women’s Powerlifting Association (THSWPA) 6A state meet. All qualified for state during the THSWPA Region II, Division I meet at Lehman Hig...

Staff Report Two Hays CISD middle school teachers received a surprise Monday morning when they learned they are finalists for the H-E-B Excellence in Education awards. Eric Rodriguez, a math teacher at RC Barton Middle School and Victor Hernandez, a science teacher at DJ Red Simon Middle School, eac...