After spending 42 years in one field – in Daniel King’s case, education -- next Monday, Sept. 30, has to be somewhat bittersweet, considering it will be his last day as superintendent of PSJA ISD, where he first arrived in 2007; 30 years after first stepping foot inside an Hidalgo ISD high school classroom as a rookie teacher/coach, fresh out of UTPan Am.
Call the missionary family’s kid from Rio Hondo a fast learner, motivated, but there is no taking away from the fact that only five years later, at the relatively young age of 28, he was principal of a ...