EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from Hays & San Marcos CISDs
COMPILED BY ZARA FLORES
HIGHLIGHTS HAYS CISD Christopher Castillo was hired by the board Feb. 13 to serve as the new athletic coordinator and head football coach for Lehman High School. Castillo has nearly two decades of educator and coaching experience. He is the athletic coordinator and head football coach for Highlands High School in San Antonio. Superintendent Eric Wright said in his former role Castillo led Highlands to a district championship while ensuring the student athletes maintained a GPA of 3.0 or higher. HAYS CISD The board approved a resolution Feb. 24 that states district employees will not be required to make up time missed as a result of the winter storm that prompted campus closures throughout the district from Jan. 30-Feb. 2. Employees absent for reasons other than the winter storm will not be charged their leave day and will be compensated. Hays CISD will meet March 27 and April 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Historic Buda Elementary Campus, 300 San Marcos St., Buda 512-268-2141 • www.hayscisd.net San Marcos CISD will meet April 3, 17 at 6 p.m. at San Marcos High School, 2601 Rattler Road, San Marcos 512-393-6700 • www.smcisd.net MEETINGS WE COVER NUMBER TO KNOW $181,818.18 was awarded to Hays CISD Feb. 24 from the Hays County Commissioners Court’s pot of American Rescue Plan Act funds. The district will utilize the funds to hire a mental health professional and to provide mental health services for students who are unable to pay for them.
HAYS CISD
SAN MARCOS CISD District 1: Phillip Allen Muzzy Jessica Cain District 2:
In addition to multimillion-dollar bonds for both Hays and San Marcos CISD, there will be five names on the ballots for each board. NEW FACES ON THE DAIS
At-Large: Vanessa Petrea* Single-Member District 2: Esmeralda Pérez- González* Single-Member District 1: Raul Vela, Jr.*
Bill Ward
Margarita T. Villalpando*
Kevin Carswell
Johnny Flores
District 3: Sandra Sepulveda Lopez
SOURCES: HAYS CISD, SAN MARCOS CISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT *INCUMBENT
Trustee races in Hays, San Marcos CISDs set for May
HAYS & SAN MARCOS CISDS Voters will choose a new makeup of each school board in the May 6 election. District 1 Trustee Raul Vela Jr. is up for re-election on the Hays CISD board. He is a U.S. Army veteran and, prior to his position on the board, served on various district committees. Bill Ward, a senior software engineer from Kyle, filed to challenge Vela Jr. District 2 Trustee Esmeralda Pérez-González is also up for re-election. Pérez-González was appointed to the board in December 2021 following Willie Tenorio Jr.’s resignation. She is a retired educator. Up against Pérez-González is teacher Johnny Flores. Vanessa Petrea, at-large trustee and board president, has been on the board since 2017 and is running unopposed.
Among the SMCISD candidates, only one is a sitting member: District 2 Trustee Margarita T. Villalpando. She has served on the board since 2004. Villalpando will be challenged by Kevin Carswell, owner of Mochas & Javas in San Marcos. Miguel Arredondo, District 1 trustee and board vice pres- ident, will not be seeking re-election. Philip Allen Muzzy, a former SMCISD teacher and coach, and Jessica Cain, a pastor at Living Word Lutheran Church in Buda, are running for the slot. Mayra Mejia, District 3 trustee and board secretary, is not seeking re-election. Sandra Sepulveda Lopez, an employee at the Law Offices of David C. Hardaway in San Marcos, is running unopposed.
New campus breaks ground in Hays CISD HAYS CISD The final plat for Hays CISD’s 16th elementary school was approved Feb. 24. The new school does not yet have a name, but it was coined the “Negley Relief School” early on in the design process. Negley Elementary School, located at 5940 McNaughton, Kyle, had the highest enrollment of all the elementary schools in the district for the 2021-22 school year with 909 stu- dents. Negley is also about 2 miles
away from Elementary School No. 16, which will be located in the Anthem subdivision in Kyle. The relief school is located on 13.07 acres and is expected to be up to 115,000 square feet with just under 50 classrooms to accommodate 900 students. Along with the final plat approval, the early stages of construction have begun for the relief school, which is estimated to cost $48.27 million. Funding for the school was secured through the 2022 bond. The school is slated to be com- pleted in August 2024 in time for the 2024-25 school year.
NEW CAMPUS IN 2024 The early stages of construction began in January for Hays CISD’s 16th elementary school, set to be located in the Anthem subdivision in northwest Kyle.
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SOURCE: HAYS CISD, HAYS COUNTY/ COMMUNITY IMPACT
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