{"id":264989,"date":"2026-08-14T01:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264989\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:52:13","slug":"nick-petraccione-returning-to-bchs-as-an-interim-assistant-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264989\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Petraccione returning to BCHS as an interim assistant principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Petraccione-202x300.png\" alt=\"person with glasses smiling\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-69383 size-medium\"  \/>Nick Petraccione<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Bethlehem Central School District is welcoming back retired Bethlehem Central administrator Nick Petraccione, who will serve as interim assistant principal at Bethlehem Central High School for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Petraccione will assume the position currently held by Assistant Principal Heather Culnan, who has been named interim principal of Hamagrael Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Petraccione retired from Bethlehem Central in 2024 after 18 years of service to the district. At the time of his retirement, he was the district\u2019s K-12 social studies department supervisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Petraccione said he is looking forward to returning to a school community he knows well and cares deeply about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cI\u2019m especially looking forward to reconnecting with students, families, faculty and staff and contributing in a steady, supportive way during an important time for the high school,\u201d Petraccione said. \u201cI hope to bring my experience to support Principal Matt Urban and the high school leadership team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For Petraccione, returning to Bethlehem is about more than filling a leadership role. It is an opportunity to reconnect with a community that played an important role in his career as an educator and administrator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReturning to Bethlehem is more than a professional opportunity for me \u2014 it\u2019s a chance to return to a school community that helped shape who I am as an educator and leader,\u201d he said. \u201cBethlehem is a place where students matter, relationships matter and people share a deep commitment to doing what is best for kids. I\u2019m excited for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Petraccione Bethlehem Central School District is welcoming back retired Bethlehem Central administrator Nick Petraccione, who will serve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43998,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-264989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bchs-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}