Citizen Portal

Get email alerts on the Optional Flexible School Day topic

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Board approves Optional Flexible School Day Program to support at-risk secondary students

Mercedes Independent School District Board of Trustees · June 16, 2026

Summary

Mercedes ISD approved an Optional Flexible School Day Program for 2026–27 after administration recommended pursuing an application to allow flexible hours/days for at-risk secondary students; motion passed unanimously 6-0.

The Mercedes Independent School District board voted to approve the district’s Optional Flexible School Day Program application for the 2026–27 school year after administration recommended adopting the program for secondary campuses with special circumstances.

Interim Superintendent Dr. Alicia Noyola said administration recommended approval “as presented.” Mona Guerra, who outlined how the program would allow flexible hours and days for at-risk students, told trustees the program would provide accommodations for secondary campuses with special circumstances. Orlando Rodriguez made the motion to approve and Oscar Hernandez seconded; the roll-call vote was recorded in favor by all six voting trustees.

AI generated

The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.

AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.

Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.

Source