DRIPPING SPRINGS — The Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees discussed, for the second time, the potential of a health course requirement for high school students to graduate. This comes weeks after the board decided to postpone any action on the item at its Oct. 23 meeting, following a recommendat...

Staff Report DRIPPING SPRINGS - The Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees held a special meeting on Wednesday, June 8, and approved $600,000 to be spent on safety and security improvements for the district. Details about the specific improvements were not publicly released given the security-sensit...

By Megan Wehring DRIPPING SPRINGS — After discovering two necessary policies were missing, the Dripping Springs ISD’s (DSISD) special education department will endure an audit. During the Dec. 13 meeting, the DSISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved the new audit to be conducted by the Texas Ass...

By Sahar Chmais  Dripping Springs ISD Board President Barbara Stroud has stepped down from her position and will be sitting as a board member.  “Thank you all for putting your trust in me to serve as your president,” Stroud said, “and I will say before I turn it over that it’s going to be my honor a...

Each January Dripping Springs ISD and districts across the state honor their local school boards during School Board Recognition Month. The theme of this year’s recognition month is “Navigating to Success.” Board service is a volunteer effort with no salary, accepted by only a few in the community. ...

Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees member Mary Jane Hetrick has been elected to a one-year term on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)  Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 13, Position B. Now in her second term on the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees, Dr. Hetrick is a 20...

To the editor: January is School Board Recognition Month and Dripping Springs ISD is joining other districts across the state to thank these local leaders for their dedication and willingness to serve as advocates for our children and public schools. The theme of this year’s recognition month is “Pl...

The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) elected Mary Jane Hetrick of Dripping Springs ISD to fill an interim position on the TASB Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 13, Position B. Hetrick is in her second term on the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees. She is a 2017 Leadership T...

Dripping Springs ISD’s proposed $132 million bond measure passed by a slim 31 vote margin May 5, marking a victory in the district’s initiative to accommodate for growing classroom populations. The measure was approved by 50.47 percent of the 3,293 total voters who participated in the bond referendu...

Dripping Springs ISD voters Saturday will decide on not only three board of trustees seats, but also a $132 million bond initiative that includes a handful of facility improvements. DSISD’s bond, which was crafted after a nearly four month process by the district’s steering committee, calls for $72....