Education
BY BRITTANY ANDERSON & JAMIE MOORE
HCISD, SMCISD state performance reports released The Texas Education Agency recently released its annual Texas Academic Performance Reports, or TAPR, for school districts. Two-minute impact Per the latest available data in the report, between 2021-22 to 2022-23: HCISD, SMCISD 2024 STAAR scores The percentages represent reading, math, science, social studies, English I and II, algebra I, biology and U.S. history STAAR scores taken by students in third through 12th grades.
San Marcos CISD approves 2025 26 calendar The board of trustees approved the calendar during its Feb. 20 meeting. Dates to know • Aug. 13: rst day of school • Nov. 24-28: Thanksgiving break • Dec. 22-Jan. 2: winter break • March 9-13: spring break • May 21: last day of school The approved calendar includes federal holidays such as: • Sept. 1: Labor Day • Oct. 13: Indigenous Peoples’ Day • Jan. 19: Martin Luther King Jr. Day • Feb. 16: Presidents Day
Hays CISD San Marcos CISD
• Chronic absenteeism, or students missing 10% or more of school days, in HCISD dropped from 34.5% to 22.5%, while average student atten- dance increased from 90.5% to 92.8% • College, Career and Military Readiness grad- uation rates increased in both districts, from 57.3% to 80.3% in HCISD and 20.2% to 55.2% in SMCISD STAAR and end-of-course exam scores for 2023- 24 were also released in the reports. Per the TEA, “approaches grade level” and “meets grade level” is passing, but it indicates stu- dents may need future targeted academic support.
Approaches grade level Meets grade level Masters grade level
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SOURCES: HAYS CISD, SAN MARCOS CISDCOMMUNITY IMPACT
The full TAPR can be viewed at www.hayscisd.net/accountability and www.smcisd.net/accountability.
Program supports local schools in combating fentanyl
“We need to get this information out to students ... because the more that they hear it ... the better likelihood they’re able to make those informed
Researchers at Texas State are utilizing a $1.87 million grant for the next ve years to strengthen the Fentanyl Education, Support, Training, and Awareness, or FESTA, program. FESTA helps local school districts in Hays County implement substance abuse education programs required by state law to combat fentanyl misuse and accidental poisonings.
Zooming in The program is conducting a needs assessment, developing and implementing an educational curriculum that includes a fentanyl component, hosting outreach events with communities in Hays County, and establishing a community advisory board that meets monthly.
decisions when they are given that opportunity to make a choice.” KELLY CLARY, FESTA PROJECT
DIRECTOR AND TEXAS STATE SOCIAL WORK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
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