Hays CISD

This summer has been brutal in Texas. Hays CISD is taking precautions to help keep students safe, while also preparing for a warmer future.

The law requires school districts to automatically enroll fifth graders with high state standardized math test scores in advanced math in middle school. The measure had bipartisan support and sailed through the Texas Legislature.

With so many variables — like whether an overdose occurs on campus or after school — there's no way to know if Hays CISD is a hot spot or if other districts are just tracking differently and aren’t aware of a problem.

The Eanes ISD school board called a $131.4 million bond election to help maintain and improve district facilities. The last time the district had a bond on the ballot was 2019 and voters overwhelmingly approved it.

Voters in Hays County will decide on several school district bonds and emergency services funds.

Hays County school districts want to expand schools and build new ones in an effort to fit hundreds of new students each year.

A billboard shows the faces of young people who have died. Posters show the difference between fentanyl and other prescriptions drugs. And a video presented to seniors shows a student overdosing in his car.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is also joining the county's health department and other local law enforcement agencies as part of an overdose task force.

The district will now report new cases of the coronavirus every day, instead of once a week, and will hire additional nursing staff to help with contact tracing efforts.

At a special-called meeting Thursday, the board of trustees voted 6-1 to require students and employees to wear masks in district facilities and buses.