Circumstances surrounding Hays CISD Superintendent Michael McKie’s departure remain unclear, even after district leaders accepted his resignation and named an acting superintendent during a special called meeting Friday.

At Friday’s meeting, the Hays CISD Board of Trustees voted 7-0 to approve McKie’s resignation and release agreement and named Carter Scherff, chief operations officer, as acting superintendent.

The board’s decision was made after they spent nearly two hours...