Waco ISD s attendance rate is lower than the state average, and its rate of chronic absenteeism is higher, administrators told the school board Thursday.
The Waco Independent School District will see another decade of slowly shrinking enrollment before it levels off and possibly increases, a demographer told the school board this week.
Waco ISD trustees are looking for ways to explain a bad report card to parents after changes in the state’s school accountability standards may push schools into the failing category
McLennan County schools showed moderate change, mostly positive, on recently released STAAR scores, and Waco ISD is set to join a lawsuit over changes in how accountability ratings are calculated.
A handful of Midway ISD employees will be armed and trained to complement other new state-mandated security measures, while Waco ISD will contract with licensed officers to meet the requirements.