Texas Association of Community Schools

We were proud to honor more of our scholarship recipients at lunch last week! Pictured are two of our employee scholarship recipients who are furthering their career in education: Kaden Griffitt from Vega ISD and Christine Bentley, a teacher from West Texas High School. Also honored was student Kynlie Green from West Texas High School, recipient of the Live Oak Public Finance scholarship.

We have been having a blast getting to meet our scholarship winners more personally this season!

Thank you to the Region 2 Education Service Center for letting us join this month's superintendent RAC meeting. It was great to see so many superintendents from Region 2, including our committee members Cynthia Garcia, Bill Chapman, and Kristen Tinsley!

We loved honoring our scholarship winners Madison Kubecka (Industrial ISD) and Maria Pham (Palacios ISD) this week! Pictured here with current PISD superintendent Jared Duncum, incoming superintendent Jason Valentine, PISD principal Stephanie Garcia, CCMR Specialist Stephanie Busby, and counselor Veronica Kacer.

Thank you to Region 16 for letting us join your RAC meeting today!

Former TEA Commissioner Mike Moses addresses Region 15 superintendents. Thank you for having us!

Have you thanked a teacher today? If not, don't worry - is ALL WEEK!

Something you may not know is not only does TACS provide scholarships for students, but we also grant scholarships to district employees seeking to further their career and education.

One of our recipients this year was Humberto Garcia, who works at Alice ISD. We loved the vision he shared for retaining quality teachers. We wish him all the best in his doctorate program! Here he is pictured with Dr. Cynthia Gonzalez, assistant principal, Dr. Marissa Kubala, principal, and Dr. Cidonio Cantú, ECHS principal.

We were honored to celebrate Olivia from Sinton ISD this week on receiving a TACS scholarship! Congratulations on hard work paying off, Olivia! And thank you to Pearson Legal, PC for sponsoring this scholarship!

Barry Haenisch, our past Executive Director who still works for TACS doing regional visits and penning articles for our weekly communique, was honored last week with the McMurry Distinguished Achievement Award for Education. He and his wife Linda (pictured with Barry and his grandson below) are both McMurry University alumni. Barry has truly dedicated his life to public education and we couldn’t be prouder!

TACS Deputy Executive Director Sheri Blankenship honoring scholarship awardees Abby Wyatt (Ropes ISD) and Skyler Pond (Smyer ISD) along with their superintendents and principal. Great work, Abby and Skyler!