{"id":436312,"date":"2025-12-09T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436312\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:06:13","slug":"north-east-isd-names-interim-superintendent-ahead-of-maikas-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436312\/","title":{"rendered":"North East ISD names interim superintendent ahead of Maika&#8217;s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North East Independent School District board of trustees voted Monday evening to appoint Anthony Jarrett as interim superintendent effective Jan. 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett is currently serving the role of chief instructional officer at NEISD, where he\u2019s been employed for six years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to build on the great work we\u2019ve been doing and to explore new learning opportunities for all our students,\u201d Jarrett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neisd.net\/announcements\/?capostid=130053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a written statement<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m eager to collaborate with our amazing staff and families to ensure we provide the best education possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same evening the board approved the resignation of Superintendent Sean Maika effective March 31 with his last day planned for Jan. 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maika <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/neisd-superintendent-sean-maika-to-resign-in-january-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his plans to retire last month<\/a> after leading the district since 2019. During Monday\u2019s meeting Maika said his plans to retire are solely based on his desire to spend more time with his family, especially his wife Caryn Maika, who he said he plans to travel the world with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a decision that was taken lightly, my family and I\u2026 we\u2019ve always put my career first. It\u2019s time for me to put my family first,\u201d Maika said. \u201cIt\u2019s just that simple. There\u2019s nothing nefarious going on here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent still has one more board meeting in January, but as the trustees approved the resignation, most of them offered early words of gratitude and farewell echoing the \u201chuge loss\u201d this means for the city\u2019s second largest school district which <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.texastribune.org\/districts\/north-east-isd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">houses more than 56,000 students<\/a> across 70 schools.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Change is inevitable, Maika said, but he leaves knowing that his team will continue to take care of the district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in leadership now 24 years, folks, I don\u2019t get anywhere without great people, and there are a lot of great people in this audience,\u201d Maika said at the meeting. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes the system work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North East Independent School District board of trustees voted Monday evening to appoint Anthony Jarrett as interim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":436313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,201953,20702,93628,7202,7203,20704,78501,358,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7819],"class_list":{"0":"post-436312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anthony-jarrett","10":"tag-neisd","11":"tag-north-east-isd","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sean-maika","15":"tag-superintendent-sean-maika","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-typedaily","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-wc-500-750"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115691649951334631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}