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Dripping Springs ISD prioritizes attendance, approves credit agreement
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Dripping Springs ISD prioritizes attendance, approves credit agreement
District OKs TEA foreign student exchange waiver
By Megan Navarro 
September 4, 2024
DRIPPING SPRINGS — In order to reduce recapture, now known as excess local revenue, the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved an agreement for the purchase of attendance credits at its Aug. 26 meeting. Recapture — the process in which school districts send some of their local p...
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Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees adopts $123.68 million total budget with deficit
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Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees adopts $123.68 million total budget with deficit
By Megan Navarro 
June 26, 2024
DRIPPING SPRINGS — Following a public hearing during it's June 24 meeting, the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved a $123.68 million total budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year, with a deficit of $2.89 million. The district is projected to end the 2023-24 fiscal year with a fund...
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Dripping Springs ISD approves 1% pay increase for staff
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Dripping Springs ISD approves 1% pay increase for staff
By Megan Navarro 
May 22, 2024
DRIPPING SPRINGS  — All Dripping Springs ISD employees will soon see a 1% pay increase. The DSISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 1% general pay increase at its May 20 meeting for current teaching, auxiliary, clerical/technical and administrative/professional staff to take effect on July 1....
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Dripping Springs ISD approves budget assumptions, parameters with 1% pay jump
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Dripping Springs ISD approves budget assumptions, parameters with 1% pay jump
District to replace Dripping Springs Middle School gym floor
By Megan Navarro 
March 6, 2024
DRIPPING SPRINGS  — Following discussion at its agenda review on Feb. 20, the DSISD Board of Trustees voted 6-0 to approve the budget assumptions and parameters for FY 2024-25, which includes a 1% pay increase for all staff, at its regular Feb. 26 meeting. The following assumptions and parameters ar...
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Dripping Springs ISD to consider budget assumptions
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Dripping Springs ISD to consider budget assumptions
By Megan Navarro 
February 28, 2024
DRIPPING SPRINGS  —   At its Feb. 20 agenda review meeting, the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees discussed the potential budget assumptions and parameters for FY 2024-25. The proposed budget assumptions and parameters are used in developing the preliminary General Fund budget for 2024-25, cove...
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Dripping Springs ISD approves reduction in tax rate for FY 2023-24
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Dripping Springs ISD approves reduction in tax rate for FY 2023-24
District joins lawsuit against Texas Education Agency
By Megan Navarro 
October 4, 2023
DRIPPING SPRINGS — Dripping Springs ISD is moving forward with a reduction in its tax rate for the 2023-24 fiscal year. On Monday, Sept. 25, the DSISD Board of Trustees approved a rate of $1.1075 per $100 of certified property value by a vote of 6-1. The tax rate is a $0.1854 decrease from the 2022 ...
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DSISD names CFO
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DSISD names CFO
By Megan Navarro 
April 5, 2023
DRIPPING SPRINGS — Last week, the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved Gina Mitschke as the district’s new chief financial officer. This comes on the heels of previous hiring decisions in the district’s finance department and administration. Cedric Menchion was the chief finan...
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Mom claims Hays CISD could have done more to prevent child endangerment
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Mom claims Hays CISD could have done more to prevent child endangerment
By Brittany Kelley 
April 30, 2025
BUDA — After discovering that her son’s former teacher was arrested for public intoxication, Christina Nichols was left wishing Hays CISD did more to ...
Kyle Police investigate fatal crash on IH-35 near Yarrington Road
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Kyle Police investigate fatal crash on IH-35 near Yarrington Road
By Staff Report 
March 18, 2025
KYLE – The Kyle Police Department is investigating a fatal collision that occurred at approximately 2 a.m. March 18 on southbound IH-35 near Yarringto...
Joint operation leads to more than 40 arrests in Hays County
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Joint operation leads to more than 40 arrests in Hays County
By Staff Report 
April 2, 2025
AUSTIN — A joint investigation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the San Antonio Poli...
Three-car collision leaves one dead
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Three-car collision leaves one dead
By Staff Report 
March 12, 2025
DRIPPING SPRINGS – A three-car collision left a 79-year-old woman dead March 1. At approximately 6:45 p.m., the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS...
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Former Dripping Springs Middle School teacher sentenced to 60 years in prison for possession of child pornography
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Former Dripping Springs Middle School teacher sentenced to 60 years in prison for possession of child pornography
By Staff Report 
April 30, 2025
SAN MARCOS — Hays County District Judge Sherri K. Tibbe sentenced Kevin McLean, 33, to a total of 60 years in prison April 29; McLean entered a plea o...
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