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...

DRIPPING SPRINGS — Three candidates — Mary Jane Hetrick, Stefani Reinold and Shanda DeLeon — won seats on the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees in the May 4, 2024 election. According to unofficial results, Hetrick received 22.5% (3,216) of the votes, Reinold received 20.86% (2,981) and DeLeon r...

DRIPPING SPRINGS — The Hays County League of Women Voters hosted a candidate forum for the upcoming Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees election, where residents will choose three out of the five candidates vying for the at-large positions, on April 10 at the Sententia Vera Cultural Hub. Stefani ...

DRIPPING SPRINGS  — Retired Lieutenant General Scott McKean was named the executive director of Patriots’ Hall of Dripping Springs — a 10-acre campus dedicated to providing services and resources to Central Texas veterans and their families. The organization’s mission is to create a permanent retrea...

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...

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...