Bryan ISD school board approves applying to the state to allow flexible attendance options for students at the district's alternative school

This podcast contains comments from the December 1, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting.A plan by Bryan ISD administrators to collect more state money from students at the district's alternative campus gets unanimous support from the school board.Associate superintendent Barbara Ybarra says currently, if a student at M.C. Harris is not in the building by 10 a.m., the district doesn't get state money.If the state approves BISD's application to implement what is called an Optional Flexible School Day Program, then the district gets state money after students at M.C. Harris complete their courses.The program would allow those students to take courses in person and/or online and on different days and times.Dr. Ybarra said another goal of the program is to improve graduation rates for students who are at risk of dropping out of school, have already dropped out, or are falling behind in core subject courses.BISD board members were told the four year graduation rate for the class of 2023 at M.C. Harris was 78.7 percent, compared with the district wide rate of 92.6 percent.And the dropout rate during the 2022-2023 school year at M.C. Harris was 8.5 percent, compared with the district wide rate of 1.3 percent.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the December 1, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting.