{"id":53708,"date":"2022-12-09T03:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53708"},"modified":"2022-12-09T03:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:05:03","slug":"princeton-isd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53708","title":{"rendered":"Watching from ground up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">My journalism career enabled me to cover many fascinating subjects and meet some extraordinary people over the course of nearly four decades \u2026 but these days I am being given the chance to watch an issue develop from conception to an electoral conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>I am now a freelance reporter working for a newspaper in the city where my wife and I settled four years ago. My bosses at the Princeton (Texas) Herald have asked me to cover the development of an economic plan that likely will result in a bond issue election next May in this Collin County community.<\/p>\n<p>The Princeton Independent School District formed a 49-member citizens committee that is examining how the district will deal with burgeoning student population growth. To be honest, I had never covered such an issue from the beginning, sitting at ringside as the committee hammers out the demographic, economic, taxing issues that await it.<\/p>\n<p>To be utterly clear, I need to be careful that I do not \u201cscoop\u201d my bosses at the Herald by posting something on this blog that pre-dates the coverage I will provide for the newspaper. Still, this much has been published: the district is growing rapidly; a demographer has told the committee where the pace of growth is setting the pace; the committee has planned several other meetings prior to presenting its recommendation to the school board in late January.<\/p>\n<p>This presents me with a serious challenge and a wonderful thrill to learn a great deal about this fascinating community. One thing I have learned already is that Princeton is <em>among the fastest-growing cities in the fastest-growing county in Texas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It excites me to be able to tell this city\u2019s story to my neighbors and to others in this city who have a stake in the future of their public school system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My journalism career enabled me to cover many fascinating subjects and meet some extraordinary people over the course of nearly four decades \u2026 but these days I am being given the chance to watch an issue develop from conception to an electoral conclusion. I am now a freelance reporter working for a newspaper in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watching from ground up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9127,8865],"class_list":["post-53708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-princeton-herald","tag-princeton-isd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53709,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53708\/revisions\/53709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}