Key Decision-Makers for Academic Program of the Minneapolis Public Schools as of January 2018

Either by title and associated salary, or according to actual decision-making responsibility, the following list presents those people who have, or should have, responsibility for the academic program of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS).

 

Note that the total salary earned by these staff members at the Davis Center (Central Offices of the Minneapolis Public Schools, 1250 West Broadway) is  $2,322,724

 

In my substantially complete new book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect, I ask hard questions about this decision-making staff as to why the academic performance of students is so low, while these staff members are paid so well.  In the pertinent chapter I ask why certain staff members have been given salary increases of up to $16,000 in a single year, when academic performance has been essentially flat for the last half-decade.

 

Please review this information for present reference and as context for future articles based on chapters from Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect.

  

Staff Member                   Position                                               Salary

 

Ed Graff                               Superintendent,                              $225,000

Minneapolis Public Schools

 

Michael Thomas              Chief of Academics,                          $163,333

     Leadership, and Learning

 

Cecilia Saddler                Deputy Chief of Academics,             $151,980

     Leadership, and Learning          

 

Eric Moore                    Chief of Accountability,                      $147,900

Innovation, and Research                       

 

Carey Seeley                     Director,                                              $108,191

Dzierzak                Elementary Education   

 

Naomi R. Taylor               Director,                                             $110,895

     Secondary Education                         

 

Maureen J. Steiwert        Director,                                             $124,338

     Early Childhood Education

                         

Martha Amundson          Director,                                              $125,468

                                             Special Education Programs

 

Sara Stack                          Director,                                              $122,407

                                             Special Education Programs

 

Amy Johnson                     Director,                                              $116,509

                                              Special Education Programs

 

Michael Walker                 Office of Black Male                         $125,468

                                              Achievement

 

Anna Ross                           Director of Indian Education          $116,509

 

Terry Henry                        Executive Director,                           $107,406

      Department of College

      and Career Readiness

 

Ronald Wagner                  Associate Superintendent           $144,330

 

Lucilla Davila                     Associate Superintendent            $144,330

 

Laura Cavendar                 Associate Superintendent           $144,330

 

Carla Steinbach-               Associate Superintendent           $144,330

    Huther

 

            Total            $2,322,724