Boone County superintendent outlines 2024–25 progress, proposes budget and staff pay changes; board approves tentative budget and wage chart

Dr. Jeff Hauswald, superintendent of Boone County Schools, presented a year-end progress report Tuesday that summarized the district’s 2024–25 priorities and laid out initiatives the administration expects to implement in 2025–26, including systemwide curriculum alignment, universal classroom translation services, expanded early-childhood capacity and new employee-retention programs.

Why it matters: The report frames the district’s operational priorities — learning and safety — and accompanies several board decisions the administration said are intended to improve instructional equity, recruitment and retention while protecting student data and school safety.

Hauswald told the board the district has completed a timeline to adopt common curricula and common diagnostic screening assessments across K–12 to reduce disparities when students move between schools. He described an initial language-arts adoption (CKLA) and said the district is standardizing screening and diagnostic assessments so data are comparable across schools.

He announced plans for universal, real-time classroom translation services for students who…