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Five-school Waco ISD bond project closes, $7 million under budget
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (277+ words) Waco Independent School District's record-setting $355 million bond project wound up $7.3 million under budget, a district administrator told trustees Thursday. South Bosque Elementary School Principal Sheri Burns and Assistant Principal Laura Christian were placed on leave Tuesday for "a non-student r…...
Waco's new home base for inspiration: City unveils Bledsoe-Miller STEAM Center
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (373+ words) WATCH: Blasts of color, the buzz of young minds and eyes turned toward the sky Friday introduced Waco's new Bledsoe-Miller STEAM Center along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard." Visitors fill the Bledsoe-Miller STEAM Center on Friday under a SpaceX Dragon…...
Harmony schools add online options
1+ week, 1+ day ago (150+ words) Harmony Public Schools is expanding its instructional offerings statewide to include online learning options that can lead to credit for a high school diploma or college classes. Here's the latest for Thursday January 15th: Venezuela opposition leader meets with Trump; Trump…...
Connally superintendent says turnaround already underway as state takeover starts
1+ week, 6+ day ago (184+ words) Connally superintendent says turnaround already underway as state takeover starts'Waco Tribune-Herald Javascript is required to use this website. Connally ISD Superintendent Jill Bottelberghe discusses a bond election in 2024 that, if it had passed, would have funded a replacement for the…...
Great Falls school brings a college degree program to an elementary setting
2+ week, 4+ day ago (324+ words) Winter break at Morningside Elementary in Great Falls is a reprieve from what has been a whirlwind two years for the school. It's in the middle of its second year as a public charter school that embeds college students earning…...
South Waco shows off expansion, makerspace classroom in Monday open house
2+ week, 4+ day ago (174+ words) WATCH: A South Waco Elementary School open house held Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, celebrated the work done on the school, including a new classroom wing and renovations that included an expanded cafeteria and library, gymnasium and a makerspace classroom aimed at stimulating…...
PHOTOS: New space for Baptist Student Ministry at Baylor
3+ week, 2+ day ago (192+ words) WATCH: Some of the 3,100 volunteers held Baylor University freshmen move in to Ruth Collins Hall this week for the annual Move2BU effort. Texas A&M ill not reinstate a lecturer who was fired in the fall over a gender identity lesson,…...
Top stories of 2025: Waco High, Kendrick, South Waco openings mark finish line for $355 million bond
3+ week, 4+ day ago (314+ words) Editor's note: The Tribune-Herald is taking the final days of 2025 to look back on some of the year's local biggest stories. Kim Tucker's Tennyson Middle School students will have the chance to see their band director in action as she…...
Waco ISD, Waco Family Medicine collaborate on student mental health
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (196+ words) A zoo on Java island released video and photos of Indonesia's first locally-born giant panda cub, and said the male cub was showing signs of being in good health. The mother, 15-year-old Hu Chun, gave birth to Satrio Wiratama - nicknamed…...
Midway, China Spring ISD voters approve measures to boost local school funding
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (224+ words) A new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll shows two-thirds of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, with 59% disapproving of Trump's job performance and most saying the economy has worsened. Majorities also disapprove of his handling of…...