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Parents and guardians of Comal ISD students have until Friday to weigh in on two proposed academic calendars for the 2021-22 school year. A brief online survey outlines two options developed by the Academic Calendar ...
Comal ISD has no plans to extend its holiday break or suspend athletic activities based on current COVID-19 caseloads. In an email to parents yesterday, Superintendent Andrew Kim said he based this decision on data ...
Five Comal ISD students who represented the district at last summer’s Texas Boys State session were recognized by trustees at their November board meeting. Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) seniors Jake Peters and Lucas Garcia ...
In an email to parents yesterday, Comal ISD Superintendent Andrew Kim said the district’s five schools in Bexar County will remain open despite a new directive from San Antonio Metro Health warning parents against in-person ...
For the second year in a row, Hoffmann Lane Elementary School (HLES) was ranked the Top Elementary School in the San Antonio area by Children at Risk, Comal ISD said Tuesday. The top schools in ...
Comal ISD trustees recognized Canyon Lake High School senior Madison Crowder at their Nov. 19 board meeting. Crowder is one of 55 Comal ISD seniors who earned honors from the College Board’s National Recognition Program. ...
Responding to “the social media Rumor of the Week,” Comal ISD Superintendent Andrew Kim said in an email today that the district will not go 100-percent remote between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. He believes ...
National School Psychology Week ended today, but not the work for some 22 Comal ISD specialists who schedule face-to-face student evaluations used to rule out or verify special-education eligibility. They’ve worked overtime since August, trying ...
Artwork by Canyon Lake High School senior Alexis Hettinger was exhibited at the Texas Art Education Association’s Virtual TASA/TASB Exhibit this fall. Comal ISD was one of 63 school districts within the state selected to ...
Mountain Valley Middle School’s PTA hosts the school’s annual BlueBonnet Stomp 8:30 a.m. today at the school, 1165 Sattler Rd. Special guests from the Canyon Lake chamber and Keep Canyon Lake Beautiful will make several ...
Eleven people at Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) have tested positive for COVID-19 since at least Oct. 13 and someone at Mountain Valley Middle School (MVMS) recently tested positive for the virus, Principal Angela Looney ...
Comal ISD says it welcomes the return of 3,000 students for in-person learning on Wednesday, but Comal County health authority Dr. Dorothy Overman, a consultant, isn’t welcoming the school district’s new rules for quarantine. Comal ...
Free flu shots will be available for all Comal ISD students on Friday, Oct. 23. To register, visit comalisd.org/flu/. Sign up for a clinic is not required but will help the district plan to have ...
Canyon Lake High School Hawks’ Friday night homecoming game against the Taylor ISD Ducks is canceled due to COVID-19, Cory Martelli with Canyon Lake Broadcasting said today. The game was canceled due to a positive ...
Thanks to special funding from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), standard breakfast-and-lunch meals at Comal ISD are now free. The district announced the change in an email to parents Tuesday. The USDA program covers meals ...
Two days after she was hired to provide Comal ISD with a “fresh perspective” on health issues like COVID-19, Dr. Erin Wright resigned as the district’s medical consultant, citing a social-media campaign that discredited her ...
Comal ISD hired a new medical consultant to provide a “fresh perspective” on protecting 25,000 students and 3,000 faculty and employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The district announced today that Dr. Erin Wright will replace ...
Comal ISD’s Board of Trustees lowered the district’s tax rate by four cents on Tuesday, making it the lowest tax rate since 1990. The new property tax rate is $1.2757. It goes into effect immediately. ...
Canyon High School (CLS) students Aaden Thomas and Josh Gideon captured eighth place at the Texas High School Bass Association’s Hill Country Division tournament at Lake Buchanan on Sept. 26. They weren’t the only students ...
Comal ISD was named a “District of Distinction” by the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA), the district said today. This places the district among 18 districts to receive the honor two year in a row ...
Mountain Valley Elementary School emailed parents and guardians today informing them of a lab-confirmed positive case of COVID-19. The school said it cannot divulge identifiable information about the member of its campus community who tested ...
South Texas Youth Soccer has named Canyon Lake High School (CLHS) senior Joshua “Josh” Sczech its Boys Scholar Athlete of the Year for 2020. The 17-year-old soccer star has a 3.68 GPA. He received a ...
Canyon Lake High School sent an email to parents today alerting them that another three members of its campus community tested positive for COVID-19, but said it believes any spread was mitigated through social distancing ...
Parents and students of color who showed up at Thursday night’s Comal ISD board of trustees meeting to talk about diversity said they were forced instead to stand at the back of the room by ...
Comal ISD reported 17 current positive cases, 110 symptomatic cases and 104 “exposures” to positive cases of COVID-19 on its dashboard today. DISTRICTWIDE AS OF SEPT. 4: Current positive cases, district-wide: 17 Current symptomatic cases, ...
Diversity isn’t on the agenda, but at least a dozen Comal ISD parents plan to speak out about racism during public comments at the September board of trustees meeting 6 p.m. Thursday in the administration ...
Comal ISD reported 11 current positive cases, 130 symptomatic cases and 83 “exposures” to positive cases of COVID-19 on its dashboard Friday. There are now three active cases of coronavirus in Support Services staff. Two ...
There are now 12 positive cases of the virus in Comal ISD’s “campus communities,” according to the district’s COVID-19 Active Management dashboard. Today, the district reported 12 “current positive cases district-wise,” 118 “current symptomatic cases ...
Comal ISD Board of Trustees President David Drastata was the top story on TV news Friday. Reporter Henry Ramos opened San Antonio KENS 5 TV’s 10 p.m. show with a report about a controversial email ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents and guardians. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Comal ISD’s Bill Brown Elementary School emailed parents Thursday that three more members of its “campus community” experienced COVID-19 symptoms while in the building and were isolated until they could leave the campus. It’s the ...
Canyon Lake Broadcasting will livestream Friday’s ‘Battle of the Backbone’ between the Canyon Lake High School Hawks and the Wimberley High School Texans starting at 6:30 p.m. on Youtube. Click here to watch the away ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents and guardians. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Morena Hockley’s two sons play on Canyon High School’s (CHS) soccer team but she doesn’t belong to Canyon Athletic Booster Club and didn’t see an Aug. 17 email from president David Drastata warning parents that ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents and guardians. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents and guardians. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Comal ISD clarified all things COVID-19 on Friday, posting an addendum to the Student-Parent Handbook 2020-21 on its website. Salwa Lanford, a communications specialist for the district, said the document recaps district policies and procedures ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. DISTRICTWIDE AS ...
Comal County parents can now track COVID-19 cases in area child care facilities. On Thursday, Texas Health and Human Services Began posted a spreadsheet showing self-reported COVID-19 cases in licensed child care centers, school-age programs, ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. DISTRICTWIDE AS ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. DISTRICTWIDE AS ...
On Friday, Comal ISD was forced to clarify its mask policy on Facebook after a series of videos it shared online confused parents about the ABCs of COVID-19 prevention. “To clarify, students will not be ...
Comal ISD’s COVID-19 Active Case Management dashboard went live on Aug. 10. MyCanyonLake.com will provide daily updates for parents. Unlike Comal County’s COVID-19 dashboard, this page only reflects current cases and no date-range is provided. ...
Texas Education Agency is providing Comal ISD with disposable masks and other personal protection equipment (PPE) for the upcoming school year. Comal ISD Executive Director of Communications Steve Stanford confirmed on Tuesday that the Texas ...
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A major construction by TXDOT will have I-35 closed down in the overnight hours on Friday night and Monday night (9pm-5am each night) on the north side of New Braunfels... specifically the Kohlenberg, Watson Lane, and Old Bastrop Road exits. All traffic will be diverted to the access roads during those times.
