{"id":174539,"date":"2026-02-12T04:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:39:55","slug":"shafter-high-principal-resigns-from-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174539\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafter High principal resigns from position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHAFTER, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Shafter High School Principal Russell Shipley has resigned from his position, according to a spokesperson for the Kern High School District.<\/p>\n<p>The district did not provide an official reason for Shipley&#8217;s resignation in their statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the district, they are currently in the process of appointing a new principal for Shafter High School.<\/p>\n<p>In the interim, Paul Helman with the district&#8217;s instruction division is providing support and leadership at the school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our intention is to make this transition as easy as possible so Shafter staff can continue to focus on what is most important, the success of our students,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHAFTER, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Shafter High School Principal Russell Shipley has resigned from his position, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,33098,83282,162,15589,83279,83280,83281,69007],"class_list":{"0":"post-174539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-education-news","13":"tag-interim-principal","14":"tag-kern-county-news","15":"tag-kern-high-school-district","16":"tag-paul-helman","17":"tag-russell-shipley","18":"tag-shafter-california","19":"tag-shafter-high-school"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}