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District 11 superintendent lays out goals: higher teacher pay, focus on grade‑level achievement and pre‑K expansion
Summary
District 11 leaders told prospective candidates that the district is pivoting resources to classrooms, aims to raise starting teacher pay toward $70,000, and will expand pre‑K and work‑based learning while using classroom‑level data to target supports in low‑performing schools.
Superintendent (unnamed in the transcript) used a 45‑minute orientation presentation to tell prospective school board candidates that the district’s top goal is to raise the share of students performing at grade level by directing more resources into classrooms.
He said District 11 has invested in a portfolio of school options and in recent years has reduced the number of schools on the state watch list from a higher number down to a small handful. The superintendent attributed past enrollment declines to a perception that District 11 was not delivering high‑quality instruction, and said the district has regained families in recent years — a claim he said was affected in part by a state reporting anomaly on pre‑K counts.
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