{"id":171625,"date":"2026-02-19T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171625\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:34:15","slug":"new-contract-for-pisd-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171625\/","title":{"rendered":"New contract for PISD superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PISD school board has extended the contract of Superintendent Donald McIntyre, seen here high-fiving Christian Velasco at Godwin Elementary School. File Photo\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a five-hour executive session, the Princeton Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to extend the contract of PISD Superintendent Donald McIntyre by one year with a 3% raise in salary and benefits effective with the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The Monday, Feb. 9, special meeting also included discussion of district goals with several suggestions made for change.<\/p>\n<p>The general topic of the first goal was to \u201cprovide child-centered campuses that encourage all students to experience success\u201d and Trustee Duane Kelly questioned the district\u2019s inclusion model that provided for the special education students in mainstream classrooms rather than separate resource classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like us to look at not doing inclusion and seeing what the alternatives will be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story and stay informed, support your local community newspaper, subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Princeton-Herald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Princeton Herald.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PISD school board has extended the contract of Superintendent Donald McIntyre, seen here high-fiving Christian Velasco at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-171625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}