The Hondo Police Department is investigating the theft of more than $20,000 from an elementary school parent teacher organization, the department’s chief confirmed Wednesday.

Hondo ISD will remain closed a few days after Labor Day in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among students and staff.

Rural communities like Uvalde and Medina counties are seeing a surge in COVID-19 infections. School districts are already reporting multiple COVID-19 cases in the first few weeks of school, some almost double what they saw all of last school year.