{"id":349194,"date":"2026-06-24T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349194\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:55:13","slug":"saisd-deputy-superintendent-leaving-district-for-position-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349194\/","title":{"rendered":"SAISD deputy superintendent leaving district for position in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">San Antonio Independent School District Deputy Superintendent Dr. Shawn Bird has been named Chief Academic Officer in the Division of Teaching and Learning at Gwinnett County Public Schools outside Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Bird has been serving as deputy superintendent for SAISD since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">During his time at SAISD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2026\/06\/09\/san-antonio-isds-six-figure-travel-tab-hawaii-conferences-and-a-district-in-deficit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2026\/06\/09\/san-antonio-isds-six-figure-travel-tab-hawaii-conferences-and-a-district-in-deficit\/\">KSAT Investigates discovered that Bird took 17 trips<\/a> on the district\u2019s behalf since mid-2024. His trips were part of the more than $46,000 the district spent on travel for Bird and six other members of its executive cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Records show one of those trips was to a leadership conference at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Receipts show the district originally bought Bird a round-trip flight from San Antonio, which cost $1,045.62. However, another receipt showed Bird changed his flight to leave from Houston, then return to Kahului, Hawaii, totaling $1,070.57.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">KSAT asked Bird about the trip and why he did not pay for the flight from Virginia to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cYou know, you bring up a good point, and I would not,\u201d Bird said. \u201cThat\u2019s how I would do it in the future if I was ever going to travel personally after district businesses. That\u2019s exactly what I would do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">KSAT Investigates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2026\/05\/07\/amid-46m-deficit-saisd-superintendent-continues-district-funded-cross-country-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2026\/05\/07\/amid-46m-deficit-saisd-superintendent-continues-district-funded-cross-country-travel\/\">looked into the travel records<\/a> of the cabinet and the district\u2019s superintendent after it was reported that SAISD was facing a $46 million dollar deficit. The district has closed campuses and cut some popular programs from schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">SAISD Superintendent Jaime Aquino announced in March he will retire from the district in January 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Gwinnett County Public Schools did not say when Byrd would begin his new role with the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Independent School District Deputy Superintendent Dr. Shawn Bird has been named Chief Academic Officer in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[163,4976,4042,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-349194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-education","tag-ksat-investigates","tag-saisd","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349194","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=349194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}