By Sahar Chmais  HAYS CISD – Several Hays CISD campuses will not resume in-person courses until next week, beginning on Monday, March 1, due to damage from the winter storm.  Fuentes, Hemphill and Tom Green Elementary will proceed with virtual learning until  next week because the campuses are still...

A new clothes closet made up of community donations will open this month at the Simon Middle School campus, just in time for the first day of school. Hays CISD School Board Trustee Esperanza Orosco led the charge for the new program. She was a teacher with the district when she first saw families of...

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...

By Bailey Buckingham A $220,000 professional development service to help teachers instruct balanced literacy was approved by the Hays CISD school board. But one school board trustee believes advanced training would help students beyond what Hays CISD is paying for.  The board approved the profession...

Hemphill Elementary students got the opportunity to discover some of their limitless career options at the 2016 Career Day event last Friday. Volunteer representatives from careers as wide-ranging as criminal justice to veterinary medicine. Above, former county court-at-law judge Linda Rodriguez spo...

By Kim Hilsenbeck The Board of Trustees for the Hays Consolidated Independent School District approved the selection of Tracie Robinson as the principal for Hemphill Elementary School.  Robinson’s career in education spans nearly two decades. She brings with her to Hays CISD much valuable experience...